My editor pointed out yesterday that we just have 11 more issues of the paper until we graduate and today in another meeting, we were reminded that Green Lighting starts this month to register for the Fall semester. It's slowly hitting me that even though the school is already preparing for the Fall semester, I don't have anything to plan for when it comes to school, at least for the next year.
The surprising thing is that while this would have bugged me a month ago, now I'm totally okay with graduating. Now that I have a plan in place for at least the first few months after I graduate, I'm okay with moving on. I've been at WT for two years now and while the first year wasn't that great (okay, there were points that I hated it) this year has been everything and more than I could have imagined, but I can't see myself here next year.
Sure, staying a kid for another year would be amazing, but I'm ready to accomplish my goals and take the world head on. Really, even though I planned to stay here for another semester and had good reasons to in my head, it wasn't the real reason I wanted to stay. I wanted to stay because I was afraid to grow up and looking at how I would have been then, I really wouldn't have been all that happy with my choice.
One of the assignments for my portfolio class was to find a job listing to be "interviewed" for and while other people have struggled with finding any job that interests them, I found mine within one minute. And it's actually a job I would love to have. This may not be a big deal to most people, but finding the job and realizing that it's something that I would love to do prepared me for moving on.
With this newfound confidence, the next 96 days will be full of enjoying the last of my college experience instead of worrying about the future.
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