I GRADUATED SUMMA CUM LAUDE!!!

I just got my final quarter grades in - my final grades kept my cumulative GPA above the threshold - I was so afraid that my last quarter would tip me off the edge - but it didn't! It's not just "pending"! It's real!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

It went well, of course. Despite the spectrum of nervous-to-fretting-to-OMGPANIC! that I ran through during that final week there ... even *I* knew that there weren't likely to be any catastrophic mishaps. Of course that still didn't stop me from running around like a headless chicken and fussing over everything in sight, starting at 10:00 in the ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I turned in my last final paper. On Wednesday, I had my English department graduation ceremony. Once Sunday hits, I'll have the Women Studies ceremony and my last bit of school will be over ( Read more... )

One of the features of the Women Studies graduation ceremony will be a collaborative speech from a few of the graduating students about what Women Studies means to them. This group includes yours truly, because ... well, honestly, because if I was going to bust my ass planning this ceremony, I wasn't going to pass up the chance to get some ( Read more... )

I thought I was going to avoid getting a case of the woobs before I finished up with school, but now that I'm sitting at home on a quiet Sunday night, they're starting to creep up on me ( Read more... )

[This is the final part of my series on Women and Violence, which I wrote as a project for a Women Studies course I took this quarter. For an explanation and information on my intentions with this series, please see the introductionI realize that a quarter-long series of articles about violence against women can be depressing, and I'd like to end ( Read more... )

Two things happened that boosted the quality of my day:

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[This is part of my series on Women and Violence, which I am writing as a project for a Women Studies course I'm taking. For an explanation and information on my intentions with this series, please see the introductionIn "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action," Audre Lorde writes the following description of her thought process ( Read more... )

[This is part of my series on Women and Violence, which I am writing as a project for a Women Studies course I'm taking. For an explanation and information on my intentions with this series, please see the introductionIn an article titled "'Femininity' and women's silence in response to sexual harassment and coercion," Kathleen V. Cairns describes ( Read more... )

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