I am very pleased to share some wonderfully good news. I have been accepted into a Graduate Certificate of Public Health by Torrens University! I have been on tenterhooks all week awaiting their decision. I’m starting immediately, in fact the course started 2 weeks ago so I’m slightly late to it, but tremendously excited. Here in Australia a grad cert is about the equivalent of an honours. Usually you need a bachelor’s degree to access it, but I got in on the strength of my resume (showing 7 years work history in the field, and my cert 4). I’ll be studying online for the first time, back at uni for the first time since Poppy was born, and I can’t wait to get started. My first subject is epidemiology. I’m going to have to brush up on APA formatting. Eeeeee!

I am hopeful this may help with my severe imposter syndrome, and give my work a little more credibility. I’m looking forward to learning new things and having access to interesting books and theories. It also opens the doors to a Master’s or PhD should I decide to pursue that road down the track. I’m also just incredibly excited that I finally have a resume that a faculty head described as impressive. ❤️ That’s been a real labor of love and I wasn’t sure that freelance work would be seen in the same light as a string of jobs, but there’s some pretty fantastic projects in there. I’m very proud of it.

In a funny twist of fate, I have also contacted my old art school where I had been part way through a bachelor’s degree that was defunded. They are now offering a new bachelor of visual arts that has exit points at diploma and advanced diploma levels. It’s looking likely that they will credit me for some of what I’ve already studied and if I complete a couple of extra classes in second semester next year, I could graduate with a diploma and have something to show for my work. So I’m going to investigate that further too.

The news couldn’t be more welcome, especially considering that today was otherwise horribly challenging with a number of unpleasant surprises such as my car radiator cracking and dumping coolant into the alternator. So, bring on the higher education! I’ll be studying online so I don’t need a car for that anyway. 😉 Rose and I will book our van in for a bit of extra love given all the traveling and camping we’ve been doing in her, and share that instead. Onward and upwards.