Update from the trenches...
I'm slooooooowly progressing toward graduation!
3 papers: done (earlier than usual for me, nonetheless) and turned in.
3 finals: done as of 3:00 today.
3 textbooks: sold back for a grand total of $50, a small fraction of what they're worth of course. And I get to kept my Abnormal Psych one because there's gonna be a new edition in the fall.
Cap & Gown: picked up along with special yellow tassel for graduation with honors...Yippee!
Convocation Tickets: picked up (Convocation = mini-graduation ceremony for the individual colleges within a university. Over 3,200 people are graduating from MSU on May 19th, so they don't read off any names...That all gets done at the Convocations, and mine - for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences - is on May 13th...Let's see if the Dean gets my last name right...lol!)
What's left to do, you ask?
1 final exam: Monday...In Human Learning and Memory. The hardest one I've got...This semester and possibly ever. AND I've still got 4 chapters of reading to do before I can even really study for it! Needless to say, my weekend is shot.
2 radio shows: This Saturday and next is all that's left for A Foolish Arrangement...So listen between 10pm and 1am, people!
1 scary grad school interview: I can't even go out and drink to the end of my semester on Monday night, because first thing Tuesday I gotta go interview for my grad program...Words cannot describe how very terrified I am. Seriously keep your fingers crossed for me...I HAVE to get into grad school if I ever want to see a decent paycheck in my lifetime.
Other than those very scary things (well, aside from the radio show), I'm pretty much done. I even got kinda misty-eyed coming home with my cap & gown this afternoon, because a) in case you don't know this by now I'm sentimental as fuck, and b) I'm really proud of myself for finally getting this done. If you knew me back when I was a teenager and damn near threw my life away you'd realize that graduating college is not a run-of-the mill accomplishment for someone like me. I really thought for a while there I was going nowhere fast, and I had no control of the situation. It was a HUGE step for me to get my ass in gear to the point where I could do this, AND do it so well that I'd graduate Summa Cum Laude, nonetheless. Walking out of that last exam Monday, and wearing that cap and gown on the 19th, are gonna be really epic moments for me. Yeah, a BA in Psychology is worth nothing in the "real world" but it still means so very much to me.
Goddamn, it's hard to drag my ass away from the computer and back to hitting those stupid books when I feel this good!
3 papers: done (earlier than usual for me, nonetheless) and turned in.
3 finals: done as of 3:00 today.
3 textbooks: sold back for a grand total of $50, a small fraction of what they're worth of course. And I get to kept my Abnormal Psych one because there's gonna be a new edition in the fall.
Cap & Gown: picked up along with special yellow tassel for graduation with honors...Yippee!
Convocation Tickets: picked up (Convocation = mini-graduation ceremony for the individual colleges within a university. Over 3,200 people are graduating from MSU on May 19th, so they don't read off any names...That all gets done at the Convocations, and mine - for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences - is on May 13th...Let's see if the Dean gets my last name right...lol!)
What's left to do, you ask?
1 final exam: Monday...In Human Learning and Memory. The hardest one I've got...This semester and possibly ever. AND I've still got 4 chapters of reading to do before I can even really study for it! Needless to say, my weekend is shot.
2 radio shows: This Saturday and next is all that's left for A Foolish Arrangement...So listen between 10pm and 1am, people!
1 scary grad school interview: I can't even go out and drink to the end of my semester on Monday night, because first thing Tuesday I gotta go interview for my grad program...Words cannot describe how very terrified I am. Seriously keep your fingers crossed for me...I HAVE to get into grad school if I ever want to see a decent paycheck in my lifetime.
Other than those very scary things (well, aside from the radio show), I'm pretty much done. I even got kinda misty-eyed coming home with my cap & gown this afternoon, because a) in case you don't know this by now I'm sentimental as fuck, and b) I'm really proud of myself for finally getting this done. If you knew me back when I was a teenager and damn near threw my life away you'd realize that graduating college is not a run-of-the mill accomplishment for someone like me. I really thought for a while there I was going nowhere fast, and I had no control of the situation. It was a HUGE step for me to get my ass in gear to the point where I could do this, AND do it so well that I'd graduate Summa Cum Laude, nonetheless. Walking out of that last exam Monday, and wearing that cap and gown on the 19th, are gonna be really epic moments for me. Yeah, a BA in Psychology is worth nothing in the "real world" but it still means so very much to me.
Goddamn, it's hard to drag my ass away from the computer and back to hitting those stupid books when I feel this good!