FEELS SOMEWHAT ANTI-CLIMATIC

At 10am this morning I will graduate from my Interior Design program with yet another Bachelor degree, this one in an entirely new field. Graduate? Well sort of! I still have five more weeks to go in the current Spring/Summer quarter along with one class and an internship next quarter. Oh, and lets not forget that one little blunder the school forgot to mention to me when I came into it nearly three years ago - I need to take an outside Art History class to complete the GE requirement portion for my degree. That I will most likely take on-line and probably after my last quarter.

But I have digressed...back to the point of my post ~ graduation. I qualified to participate in graduation and since it only occurs once a year, I had no desire to come back to school next summer to go through ceremony. So today I will do the official graduation 'walk' and receive that marvelous 'dummy' sheet of paper. The real sheepskin probably won't be in hand until Spring 2007. The walk also seems silly given a school blunder. Because of the mistake, the students are graduating midterm rather than at the end of the quarter. Just what one wants to do. Go back to school for another 5 weeks when you have gone through all the pomp and circumstance. It just all seems so anti-climatic!!

If I had to chose between which of my two Bachelor degrees mean the most to me, I probably say my first. I guess your first experience, perhaps at 'anything,' is often your most memorable. But I suspect I should be proud of myself for taking 3 years of my life, at the ripe ol' age of 43 (then), to achieve a dream. I just hope I will be blessed with the reality and successes of it. Thanks to each of you who have given me encouragement along the way. I hope you will be there until the end of my journey, at least, in December. I'll need the support based lately on the way I have felt about school. So was graduation from high school/college a proud moment for you? Any fond memories?

Ya'll have a good weekend!