Countdown:
1 group paper, about 10 pages
1 6-7 page paper
1 1/2 novels
1/2 book of poetry
2 discussion sections
4 classes
3 8:00 a.m. finals
1 non-8:00 am final
2 commencement ceremonies
There you have it. The final things that need to be done in my college career. In fourteen days, I graduate. It’s hard to wrap my head around the idea of being finally done. I’ve had a rather unfortunate antipathy for the place for a while. It would be worse if I didn’t have very concrete, secure, exciting plans for my future. It’s hard to remember that this will be my last few weeks working at the library and at OIT. That in just a few weeks, I won’t have to put up with my disgusting roommates. That soon I won’t have books hanging over my head, tests lowering in the distance, papers mocking me… There’s so much left to do to finalize all of my plans. Onward and upward, eh? I’m excited for the future, but in a way, I feel a little shocked that it’s taken four years of life to get here. It seems like it took so long, yet it got me nowhere. I can say that the only really truly positive part of my experience here was London. The other parts of my time here were mostly neutral (unoffensive) or utterly galling.
And my life will go on. For now, I’m still stuck on the same note. I have an exam tomorrow that I desperately need to study for–because I desperately need an A, because I desperately want an A in that class, because I desperately want to have a 4.0 this semester, because I’m desperately useless and picky and particular. Such is life.
