The End Is Nigh

And so it is with wonderfully high spirits and a solid grasp of my education that I plow through today with high expectations.

Today is, after all, my final day of college.

Of course, it is a day of many finalities, so to speak. This is my last day of traditional college classes (next week is finals week, so it'll be a wonky schedule). Today is also my last day of any sort of classes in general. Traditional schooling - from primary to secondary to higher education - is behind me. Next Saturday I'll graduate, and from there on out, I'll lose the biggest focus of my life thus far: school itself.

It'll be weird to not have a backbone in my life - a stable, always-present element of my life that pretty much everything else revolves around. For as much as I complained about all the work that I had to devote to school, and for as much as I loved my summer, winter, and spring breaks, the truth is that I feel lost without school. Waking up every morning and going to classes for 17 years is all that I've known life to be about, and I know I'll miss it.

So with a beautiful 81-degree day ahead of me and just one final class to go to, I look forward to wrapping up my time at BGSU with a silent nod of appreciation, a short reflection on the past five years, and a long look at the future ahead. I'll be back soon enough with plenty more on my graduation.

Out.