

There have
been several hurdles in my path to completing my Bachelor’s. My first semester
as a junior at FAU I was married. I tried to come back after 1 year, but having
my husband so far away and the death of my Grandfather all held me back, so I threw in the towel and went back to Pakistan. Shortly thereafter we moved to Florida from Pakistan and had 2 kids back to back. I struggled against all odds and
told my husband how badly I wanted to finish school and as always, he was super-duper
supportive. Finally I decided to make a comeback after almost 5 years. My first
semester back was awesome and I was able to get admitted in the Online BBA program and was to start in the Fall semester. I was all set and registered for the locked down
accounting program, and that was when Murphy hit hard.

After more
issues kept propping up, I decided on declaring a second major in marketing and a minor in Business Law. FAU
offered some classes and didn’t offer other classes; there were pre-requisites that needed
to be met, basically Murphy kept striking
and I kept pushing through! By the
way, for any and all that are in the Management
program at FAU, it is best to be a double major, you need the extra classes
in order to graduate.

Somehow, and I seriously don’t know how, but somehow, I made it to this final semester. Surly, Murphy has been up to no good. My daughter broke her arm and I thought that would be the hardest I was going to get hit before graduation, but nope, Murphy isn’t playing around; anything that can go wrong, WILL GO WRONG!
With that
being said, as though the pressure of graduating isn’t enough, my mom fell
sick. She’s normally a very healthy person. She’s isn’t a typical grandmother to my kids,
she is very active. She’s helped out a lot throughout the past
several semesters, when she is here that is. It started out as what she thought
was either gasses or muscular pain. The pain not ending convinced her to get an
EKG which landed her in the hospital. Not too long afterwards, she went through
an angiography which showed the cause of the pain in her chest was indeed the
result of an artery being 90% blocked! The docs put in a stent, and now she’s back home thank goodness.
Desis will
all agree, Desi Moms are simply the
best! They will put up with anything and everything just to see their kids
smile. Being scared she might miss my graduation she didn’t want to go for the
angiography, buy once we were able to convince her otherwise, she wanted to get
it done with ASAP so she could take part in my daughter’s birthday party that
we’ve been planning.

