The End, The End! (The End?)

So in less than an hour, I will be attending the last class of my entire college career (hopefully). With just a bit of irony, the class happens to be my Astronomy lab.

People keep asking me if I’m happy to be done with school. I don’t know how to answer that question. I figured that by this point, I’d be ecstatic. I’m not, though. I’m neutral. I guess innately I have this notion that the school is going to call me the day before my graduation and tell me that I still have something to take care of and that I won’t be able to finish. I would probably go a little crazy if something like that were to happen. Perhaps I’m being a tad paranoid, but given my previous interactions with this university, I think I’m just being careful.

Either way, by this time next week, I should have a diploma in my hands. Officially then, I will be unable to avoid paying full price for software and computers. Also, I won’t be able to use “but I’m a student!” as a viable excuse not to have a job or career or aspirations. Now begins the much-lauded “real” part of life that my college professors have been going on about for the last few years.

In honor of this upcoming “realness,” I have decided to put off thinking about school for the time-being. As far as I’m concerned, tonight is simply me going to school like normal. Next week, I can let the reality set in that never again must I enter a classroom in order to satisfy some sort of cultural expectation. And yes, I do have my fingers crossed.

~ by Parker on 14 May, 2008.