Holy crap. My academic self esteem has risen ENORMOUSLY in the past hour.
1. I emailed my graduation auditor during my last class, mostly because I was bored and it needed to be done. I told her I needed to change my date of graduation because I'll be done this semester, expecting to change it to June, since I've missed the audit dates for Spring by a long shot. However, I'm technically done with my audit a year ago — I just needed to finish up the last requirements.
SHE WAS ABLE TO CHANGE MY DATE OF GRADUATION TO APRIL.
as long as I send my transcripts from U of M-D asap which I should've done 100 months ago anyway BUT THIS MEANS
I'm
done
in
SIX WEEKS. Done and with a degree! In my hands! I meant to ask if there was any chance of getting to walk at graduation this term because if I can do it this term I will if I have to wait I won't bother but! But! DONE! I will be an official college graduate!
2. We got our papers back in Leadership. I was dreading this, because I totally BSed it the night before and had to completely re-learn APA style while I was doing it. Also because I got a C on the group exam whose butt I thought I was going to kick to next Thursday. My paper was sitting on my chair when I got back from calling Megh and getting a celebratory granola bar on our break from class. I turned it over, flipped to the grading page first, and got a 47/50.
Aka, an A on my prof's grading scale.
Aka, one of the
three A's in the whole class.
And one of the other two is my friend Meagan who sits next to me who was part of my exam group. Which means neither of us are stupid the test was just
ridiculous. GO ME/US.
Moral of the story: being a creative writing major taught me to bullshit really, really well. I may have taken a year off, but dammit, I still got it.
BUT MOSTLY I'LL BE OFFICIALLY DONE WITH SCHOOL FOREVER AFTER THIS SEMESTER. OR AT LEAST UNTIL I DECIDE TO GO BACK TO GRAD SCHOOL WHICH I KIND OF WANT TO but not yet. Now is for enjoying the fact that I will be done. And being a grown up. And actually getting to enjoy THAT, which I haven't been able to do for the past year that I've been kind of in-between with the working full-time and not being done with school yet.
Ohgod. I want to ramble on and on and on and on and on about how great this is but I'll refrain :D
PS. I wrote this entry in class I wish I wasn't having trouble focusing now because I should pay attention and do well despite the fact that I GRADUATE REGARDLESS but I really really really really like this class, actually. Oops!