GRADUATION!!!

Mar 14, 2008 12:20

I've been m.i.a. here for... a long long time. (LJ says I haven't posted in 8 weeks.)

Its because I've been undergoing the most horrific stress in my LIFE. Panic attacks, sleeplessness, short of breath, hyperventilating, overeating / not eating, etc. All because of school. Juggling getting all the projects done (and on time) to a professional quality, bound, ready to present... all leading up to today.

TODAY WAS MY PORTFOLIO PANEL PRESENTATION.
You take all your best work (six projects is the minimum) and you present it to a panel of judges, then they tell you whether or not you're going to graduate. (Faculty members, any member of the faculty in your program with a masters can come.) I had the program director in mine, our career services advisor for my program, Tony D (One of the most intellectual people I've ever met. he's very deep and convoluted and ... smart.) and John H... who has never expressed an interest in my work, but was really for it today for some reason.

how nerve wracking is THAT?!?!

Well, I had my six pieces. I chose the order I talked about them carefully, the biggest pieces first. They only got through three of them and without even deliberating told me I'm graduating! We talked about them for 40 minutes, they critiqued my work, told me what they liked, we discussed it, told them why I did what I did, they hemmed and hawed, etc... I was sweating bullets (it was also about 85° in that room!)

Whew. I'm (nearly) done!!! Now I just have to pass History of Political Theory in the Ancient World and get my display booth set up and I'm golden!!! This was the hardest part though, and I PASSED.

I'M DONE!

THANK YOU to everyone who's helped me along the way, Amanda, for when we lived together, and giving me the idea to go to school in the first place, Aim and Luís for being my subjects and taking me out for FALAFEL and stress relief, everyone for supporting me and encouraging me... I always need that support and I've never had such good friends who continually offer that up for me. I <3 U ALL!

There'll be a party, I just don't know when. I don't really have a place to hold a party anyway so we'll see! :)

stress, relief., graduation, panic attacks, school

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