In the past 24 hours I have been in a whirlwind of phone calls, meetings, classes, and work.
At roughly 10:50, yesterday, I found out that if I do my study abroad in Thailand this coming fall I can graduate next spring...a whole year early. An enormous smile took over my face as my counselor confirmed the news. I was excited, ecstatic, screaming woooo hoooo inside!
Then...I walked out the glass doors into the cold, gloomy, noisy city. Whoa. I'm graduating a year from now. I have looked forward to this day.....probably since before I even entered college....probably since I was still crawling around my house in diapers. Now, it's crawling its way closer to me and I'm slightly freaking out..I mean there's the exciting aspect of being able to go anywhere I want. I could pick up everything and move to some deserted island or in the mountains with villagers or some place where I know no one or someplace where I know everyone or some place warm!
Yes, this is an exciting new phase in my life, but whoa...in one year I'm going to be looking for a job, finding a new apartment to live in, becoming completely financially independent from my parents. No more student discounts or homework or day dreaming about the day that I can get out of school, because I'll already be out.
It's a cocktail of emotions and my mind is trying to drink them all down, so that I may find comfort and peace within this next year.
1 comment:
i love it...
it's a COCKTAIL of emotions.
best word. EVER.
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