Graduation: The Beginning or The End?

Finishing this semester, I will have only 18 credits left until I graduate. In my college career, I have gone to 3 different schools. In my classes, I would often day dream about graduating and getting the hell out of there. I was never the type of person who enjoyed school or necessarily did well in school until college. Even though my grades improved as I got older, I was always the type of person that procrastinated and did my best to avoid anything school related.

With graduation arriving in the near future, it has made me reflect a lot about how college has shaped me. I realized all the friends and connections I have made over the four years and began to think about just how much I enjoyed school even when I told myself I hated it. I think its important for those who are not yet graduating after the semester to remember that once it’s over, it’s over. When you graduate, there is no turning back and you are in the real world for good. That is unless you want to be a forty year old graduate who hangs around college campuses but I highly doubt that for everyone will find you creepy.

I now am counting the days until graduation but instead of it being a countdown of joy, I now look at as a countdown to reality. Graduation will come sooner than you think, so in the mean time enjoy what is right in front of you.