I graduated from college yesterday. I now officially have a bachelor's degree--two, actually, in both English and Spanish.



These past few weeks, as you can tell by reading my past journal entries, have been chaos, and only last night was I able to finally relax a little bit. This week was finals, which compared to all my essays and presentations really weren't that bad, but they were still something I had to prepare for. Also, I was still putting the finishing touches on my criticism paper. All twelve of us in that class finished that paper no more than twenty-four hours before it was due. Most of us didn't get it done until the very day, actually.

In addition to that, my parents came both Thursday and Friday to take my stuff out of my dorm for the last time. I still had check-outs to take care of, getting everyone's key and such, and I also had to get ready for graduation, obviously. On Friday there was a senior recognition dinner and ceremony that my parents wanted to go to, so I went--but I had no clue I was going to get recognized for something there, too. But the residence life people gave me flowers for being the longest serving RA (three years). Needless to say, I was completely embarrassed and not expecting that at all. But very grateful too, of course.

Yesterday was the ceremony. I had lots of "bling bling", as my brother Davy referred to it--three different cords and my Morton scholar's medallion. I graduated summa cum laude, which is the highest (GPA of 3.9 and above), so that was awesomesauce. I wasn't a valedictorian (sorry if I spelled that wrong, Mom and Dad's internet doesn't have a spell check) thanks to a few classes with Doc in which I was lucky enough to pull a B, but that was fine with me, I didn't have to get up on stage and be recognized individually.

I don't have my diploma yet... you know how graduation ceremonies are. I'll be getting it mailed to me. That is, unless I somehow failed all my finals and I didn't actually graduate, but that seems rather unlikely.

I have to admit, it still hasn't quite sunk in yet that I'm done with college. I mean, I'm not really done quite yet--graduate school and all. But I'm done at Dana, and I'm done with the "traditional" college student life--for grad school I'll have class just once a month, in between (hopefully) a full-time job (that I really need to get cracking on and look for). But right now, all I can do is relax and finally breathe again. My goals right now, along with finding a job, are smaller--practice flute music for a few weddings I'm playing for this summer, get a haircut, that kind of stuff.

In fandom related news, in between all the craziness of this week I actually managed to get a new fanfic written: [link] Hey Arnold fanfic! That's the nineteenth fandom I've written for, or at least posted to FF.net. Too many fandoms and too little time, I tell you.

I shall see you all next week! Maybe during this week I'll find some time to draw my long-overdue prizes and requests.