क्या हुआ??

Well I’ve graduated! My grades are in (3 As, 1 A- and a B- ) and now I’m just waiting for my diploma. I’ve also said the last goodbyes to the people I’ve spent the last year studying and hanging out with. My relationships are going to be changing a lot now.

Instead of the easy friendships where we can just meet up after class or go get coffee on the weekends, it’s going to take a little more work. I’m thinking I’ll actually start writing letters now. There’s something about receiving an actual hand written letter that feels so nice. I’m really going to miss certain people though. I’m already feeling that dull ache in my heart. But I’m hopeful that bonds will grow stronger instead of disintegrating.

Soon I will begin graduate school. For the first time I will be completely on my own, without the option of driving home on the weekend. I’ll have to start from scratch with my own friendships and living spaces. I get to mature completely as my own person. I think this is going to be the start to an amazing chapter in my life.

Here we go

I am, at best, moderately religious. But right now, as I sit at my kitchen table wearing my graduation cap, the only word I can think of is “blessed.” I’m realizing today how many people I have around me who I care deeply about and who care for me, too. There are family friends who just treat me as family and amazing friends who have done more for me than I can ever properly thank them for.

I won’t name names for privacy’s sake, but my two best friends FLEW HALF WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY to be with me for my graduation. I’m so touched, I really don’t have any words for it. And then another bestest friend is spending freaking HOURS cooking for my party. If reincarnation is a reality, I must have done something really nice in a past life. Good karma is freaking raining down around me.

So here we go. In about two hours I will be walking across that stage. I’ll enter the ranks of people with college degrees, and soon after I’ll be a graduate student. I am so thankful, I am so blessed. My hope is that someday I will be able to put my education to use in a way that will do good for someone else.

Thank you to everyone who has been there for me for the last almost-24 years. Thank you to my family and to my friends for loving me and putting up with whatever times I have been stressed and unpleasant and thank you for celebrating with me during the good times, too. I have endless love for all of you.

I can’t believe I am actually writing this after all these years! 5 years to be exact! That’s right, yesterday I took my last final, turned in my last paper and then today I returned my library books. I’m done! I’m completely and totally done with my undergraduate education! It hasn’t completely set in yet. I kind of just feel weird that I don’t have any papers to write.

But yeah, I walk on Sunday. It’s going to be so surreal. I’m so so so happy with the direction my life is going, and I can’t wait to start graduate school at UT Austin. For the summer, though, I think I’m going to try to do as much recreational reading as possible. I haven’t had the time to do that much at all during my college years!

I believe I will start off with the chronicles of narnia.