School Time!

Today I am officially a "senior" in college. For me, my senior year will be just that...one year. Two semesters but instead of a winter break in between, it will be a summer. I have it worked out that if I take 5 classes this semester (which I am, after a lot of last minute juggling) and do my study abroad over the summer (which I am) I only have 4 classes to take come Fall semester and then I will be DONE. Thank goodness.

Last night I lay in bed contemplating this coming semester. It's going to be one of a lot of challenges, both personal and professional. I thought about how even though I am 21 years old now, I still get excited for the "first" day of school. I couldn't fall asleep last night because I was so excited. But it was a different excitement from when I was a kid. This was excitement at getting my school routine back on track and seeing old friends and meeting new ones. It's a craving for stability. This is the last year of that school stability. After December, I don't have that anymore and will have to find a job "stability" to have a routine with. But for now I can just enjoy this.

I also thought this morning that in May I will have been out of community college for 2 years. And in June out of high school for 4. It's a strange thing to think about seeing as high school graduation seems like a lifetime ago and community college a shorter lifetime ago. So much has happened since I was in those places and I barely remember how life was then. I can't imagine my life different from how it is now. Even living on my own was such an easy transition for me, even though I do get very homesick now and then, especially now. It's only 2 p.m. but I've already talked on the phone with my mom twice today. I just wish I was closer to home so I could just pop in for a visit every so often.

So today is the first day of school....again. I have two classes; one in the afternoon and one in the evening. It's the dreaded night class but seeing as I have already done a reading assignment for it, it sounds pretty interesting. It's the Senior Capstone Seminar for my minor even though I've only taken one other class to do with my minor. And it's going to be fun. I have to add the class (this is the juggling I mentioned before) and as a result have already emailed back and forth with the professor so I know he's at least a nice guy. After today I'll have an inkling about how he is as a teacher.

So as I should be paying attention to my teacher who is going on about the syllabus (which I've already read and have heard about this whole class from friends who have taken it already) I will sign off now. More for later. I am forewarning you on some stressed out posts to come between now and May. Possibly through December. So until next time...later!