Well. I've graduated. I guess I should go update my profile. I'm feeling very bittersweet. That whole closing-of-a-life-chapter sensation. Plus, friends. So depressing to think that I might never see them ever again. I am grateful for the 'Net generation. Staying in contact is 100% easier now. We're even doing a D&D campaign (ed. 3.5) via the web (using OpenRPG and Skype). But still.
It would be a lot easier if we graduated during the snow - a blizzard, even! But spring was just starting and if Houghton is anything it is absolutely gorgeous in the spring. I was starting to go out to all the pretty nature spots for walks and hikes with my closest MTU friend, and then we had to leave. It sucks.
And yet, this is all balanced out by my excitement to see Beloved and to start grad school. I'm so thrilled to be part of something new. I'll be a member of the first class of Physics Ph.D. candidates at Louisville. I'll get to be a groundbreaker, a trendsetter, and a role model. Plus they have an amazing and active Society of Physics Students chapter, and I can't wait to get involved.
Anyway. I'm graduated. I'll go update that profile, now.
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I'm not looking forward to feeling this way when I graduate in June. I don't have much awesomeness to look forward to when I graduate. So, we'll see how I feel.
I think the flurry of excitement that leads up to a graduation is pretty much a let down, too. I remember when we graduated from High School and it was like, "Wait, I was just at the top of everything, winning awards, and being awesome. Now WTF am I going to do!?"
That's how I'm going to feel at the end of this, too. I know it. Because I'm not at all prepared for anything in the real world. Unless the real world wants me to write a lot of papers.
Ah, graduation. I sorta don't look forward to you.
BUT! of course, CONGRATS to you, my dear, for making it through this chapter in your life! It's so awesome, and I know you'll move on to bigger and better things! YAY!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CONGRATULATIONS, LLENCELYN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations on graduating and best wishes and good luck on the Ph.D. program and seeing Beloved!
P.S. I also thought I wouldn't get to see my school friends much after graduating a few years ago, but through a series of coincidences, a lot of us have ended up in the same city. So, with good friends . . . somehow it ends up working out.
Congratulations, Llencelyn! I am confident that you will be an excellent groundbreaker, trendsetter, and role model.
Thank you, everyone. :)
WHOO-HOO! Way to go!
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