The English Channel The English Channel Volume 17 Issue 2 Spring 2017 | Page 20

Student Successes
Thinking About My Future…
By Alyssa Pouloit
It's 3 a.m. on a Wednesday in April of 2017 and it's my last "finals week" at Oakland
University as an undergraduate. I will graduate this time next year, as I have to com-
plete an internship for student teaching first, in order to graduate with my teaching
certification for Secondary Education (high school) English and history. It's been a
long journey, and a lot has happened since I was an 18 year old freshman, getting lost
on campus, with no good friends who went to OU, no experience under my belt.
Now I'm about to turn 22 and graduation (!!) is in sight. This past year was the per-
fect culminatio