Personal Narrative: My Interdisciplinarity Journal

The future is a scary, but also exciting, thing to think about. I feel lucky to have been given the opportunity to take this course where exploring our education and our future was the whole point. I feel as though I learned a lot during the duration of this course, but I haven’t really had the opportunity to put it into practice yet which is why I am glad this paper was assigned. It gives me the opportunity to really explore my future in ways I haven’t done so yet. In order to really see how this course has affected me, I must first look back at old assignments to see how I have changed since the beginning of this course and during the duration of this course.
Looking back to my very first journal I wrote for this course is weird to me. I
In my journal I said things like “I am so excited for this school year” and “I cannot wait” (“My First Day at UIS”). Don’t get me wrong, I am still happy to be at UIS. I think the excited just wore off and all the stress from all of the assignments and papers and exams is catching up to me! One other journal that I wrote for week seven of the semester was simply titled “Interdisciplinarity Journal.” My views on this topic were influenced by a reading that I was assigned for class. It states that interdisciplinarity is defined as “combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study” (Augsburg). Before taking this course I had never heard of the term “interdisciplinarity” before. But I am glad that I now know what it means. In my journal I wrote, “When a person focuses on one discipline it can close off so much information from him” (“Interdisciplinarity Journal”). Before taking this class I would have never thought about how incorporating multiple different areas of study could help solve a problem or complete a task. I am glad that I know that now because I definitely believe that it will help me
I want to stay here in Illinois so I can stay close to my family. Like I said above, I want to work in forensic science, which pays about 71,040$ per year in Springfield, Illinois (“Average Salary for Forensic Science Technicians”). This is just an average though, and I don’t expect to make that much, especially when I just start out. I expect to earn somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 dollars per year. Either way, this is definitely enough to support the lifestyle that I want for myself. I want a lifestyle very similar to what I had when I was growing up. I would like to have a family of four: me, a husband, and two kids (ideally one boy and one girl!). I want to have a simple house that has a lot of character and charm. I want it to be big enough for my kids to have their own rooms. It is also really important that I have a room for my library (I own a lot of books). But I don’t want it too big. I don’t want spare rooms that are never used because I just think those are pointless. I also want both my future husband and I to each have a semi-nice car. It doesn’t have to be a Porsche (although that would be nice). Just nice, safe cars. I also want to be able to afford nice things for my kids. What I mean by nice things are things like nice toys and clothes. I want to be able to afford nice presents for their birthdays and for Christmas. Once they get older I want to be able to afford to buy them things to decorate their