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The March
17 years ago
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I know I normally don’t post personal journals on here, but I needed to rant a little…
It didn't hit me until tonight that my entire life is about to change. I'm marching and getting my bachelors degree tomorrow, officially to be a graduate. While I have plans to go on and get my masters, classes from here on in will be an afterthought of working and other responsibilities.
I’ve spent the last week since finals ended going on campus events for graduating seniors- a dinner cruise, ball, etc; drinking, stuffing my face, and dancing like there’s no tomorrow. I’ve felt closer to the people who are most close to me than I ever have before; making great memories, and losing others thanks to a solid week’s worth of open bars.
In a way, I wish these times would never end. I wish that familiar faces would always live two doors down, and that smiling faces would always answer when I knocked at 2am (in my slippers). I wish that 8am classes would always be the earliest thing I ever need to wake up for, and that classes would still be a 10 minute walk away. I wish that I would always be sitting down for dinner with lots of friends, complaining about campus food and laughing about something great that happened the day before, to all of us, together.
But all of that isn’t what’s in my future: While I’ll miss those things, I’m looking forward to taking the leap into the real world and finding out what kinds of things will make me smile once I’m there.
I’m sure the change isn’t as big as it seems either, and that once I’ve graduated, it all won’t seem so scary. I remember sleeping in my first dorm room with my best friend my freshmen year. I was nervous about taking college level classes, and my dreams were riddled with nightmares of accidentally going to class in the nude. Before long though, everything just seemed to fall into place and life was good.
Here’s to a good four years, a fun-filled future, and hopefully a good night’s sleep.
It didn't hit me until tonight that my entire life is about to change. I'm marching and getting my bachelors degree tomorrow, officially to be a graduate. While I have plans to go on and get my masters, classes from here on in will be an afterthought of working and other responsibilities.
I’ve spent the last week since finals ended going on campus events for graduating seniors- a dinner cruise, ball, etc; drinking, stuffing my face, and dancing like there’s no tomorrow. I’ve felt closer to the people who are most close to me than I ever have before; making great memories, and losing others thanks to a solid week’s worth of open bars.
In a way, I wish these times would never end. I wish that familiar faces would always live two doors down, and that smiling faces would always answer when I knocked at 2am (in my slippers). I wish that 8am classes would always be the earliest thing I ever need to wake up for, and that classes would still be a 10 minute walk away. I wish that I would always be sitting down for dinner with lots of friends, complaining about campus food and laughing about something great that happened the day before, to all of us, together.
But all of that isn’t what’s in my future: While I’ll miss those things, I’m looking forward to taking the leap into the real world and finding out what kinds of things will make me smile once I’m there.
I’m sure the change isn’t as big as it seems either, and that once I’ve graduated, it all won’t seem so scary. I remember sleeping in my first dorm room with my best friend my freshmen year. I was nervous about taking college level classes, and my dreams were riddled with nightmares of accidentally going to class in the nude. Before long though, everything just seemed to fall into place and life was good.
Here’s to a good four years, a fun-filled future, and hopefully a good night’s sleep.
I got the same uneasy feeling right before graduation, but it's kinda like getting a shot. You think it's going to be the worst thing ever, and then it's over and you're like... "Well, damn." It only gets better from here =)