lesson learned and the wheels keep turnin'
I just discovered something random and interesting (maybe only to me, but whatever). My grad school graduation is this Thursday, May 14. Apparently my undergraduation was also on May 14. Isn't that kind of random/strange that they would both fall on the same date?
Anyway, I just went back and read the entries I wrote right before and after that graduation, and it was so much of a bigger deal then than it is now. I mean, I'm excited that I'll be done with school and that I'll have another degree and all, but . . . I never had the kind of attachment to Rider that I did to William & Mary, and since I've been doing my internship this whole year and hardly had any classes, it feels like I was done with the school part a long time ago. There was also never as big of a social component to grad school, either, so I don't have the same feeling of having formed lasting bonds with amazing people who I now won't see anymore. I liked my grad school cohort, don't get me wrong, but we never really socialized as a group outside of classes. It's just a very different experience all around this time.
Also, this icon? I actually am not apprehensive about the future in the way I was when I finished undergrad. In fact, I'm very much looking forward to my upcoming future: finishing my internship, hopefully getting my first real job, moving up to Canada to finally be with Brad, etc. Lots of good things coming up that far outweigh any sadness there might be to finishing grad school. It might be a little bizarre not to be a student anymore, when I've been one as long as I can remember, but I know I was burning out on school last year, and I think the break will be good for me. Plus I am looking forward to finally having a real grown up's salary! *crosses fingers*
So Brad flies in tomorrow night (YAY!) and I have to say, I am way more excited about him being here than I am about graduation itself. My feelings about the ceremony have waxed and waned - I originally wasn't even going to walk, then I decided to do it for my family and eventually I got excited about it too, but now I don't care that much anymore. I might get a little more excited when I'm actually there with the funny robe and hood on, and I think dinner afterward will be nice, too. Sadly, Brad and I only get the weekend together, because he has finals starting on Wednesday of next week. I wish we had longer, but I'm really happy I get to see him at all.
I think that's all for now. Probably the next time I write in here, I will be a grad school graduate! Crazy!
Anyway, I just went back and read the entries I wrote right before and after that graduation, and it was so much of a bigger deal then than it is now. I mean, I'm excited that I'll be done with school and that I'll have another degree and all, but . . . I never had the kind of attachment to Rider that I did to William & Mary, and since I've been doing my internship this whole year and hardly had any classes, it feels like I was done with the school part a long time ago. There was also never as big of a social component to grad school, either, so I don't have the same feeling of having formed lasting bonds with amazing people who I now won't see anymore. I liked my grad school cohort, don't get me wrong, but we never really socialized as a group outside of classes. It's just a very different experience all around this time.
Also, this icon? I actually am not apprehensive about the future in the way I was when I finished undergrad. In fact, I'm very much looking forward to my upcoming future: finishing my internship, hopefully getting my first real job, moving up to Canada to finally be with Brad, etc. Lots of good things coming up that far outweigh any sadness there might be to finishing grad school. It might be a little bizarre not to be a student anymore, when I've been one as long as I can remember, but I know I was burning out on school last year, and I think the break will be good for me. Plus I am looking forward to finally having a real grown up's salary! *crosses fingers*
So Brad flies in tomorrow night (YAY!) and I have to say, I am way more excited about him being here than I am about graduation itself. My feelings about the ceremony have waxed and waned - I originally wasn't even going to walk, then I decided to do it for my family and eventually I got excited about it too, but now I don't care that much anymore. I might get a little more excited when I'm actually there with the funny robe and hood on, and I think dinner afterward will be nice, too. Sadly, Brad and I only get the weekend together, because he has finals starting on Wednesday of next week. I wish we had longer, but I'm really happy I get to see him at all.
I think that's all for now. Probably the next time I write in here, I will be a grad school graduate! Crazy!