I'm Not Done Yet

As a graduating senior I'm constantly asked whether or not I'm excited "to be done". My answer is "Yes, I'm almost there." However what I really want to say is "Please stop asking me that. I'm not done yet".

I understand that people are excited for me and want to share in the moment but the moment has not come yet. Today, I moved back into my dorm, tomorrow I start class and in four months I graduate. I am in no way excited about graduation just yet because when I stepped foot on campus I realized how much work still needed to be done.

When May 1st comes I will be over the moon because it will be 17 days before I get my diploma. Until then I would appreciate it if others wouldn't get excited before I have the chance to.

Working Vacation...The Dream Comes Alive

I can't tell you how wonderful it is to be on vacation. College is very serious and hard work; and even when I'm not at school there is still so much to be done. Very often I use my breaks (winter and summer) to make career and life decisions. The biggest decision I made was during the winter break of my sophmore year when I realized I wanted to go graduate school to get my Master's in Fine Arts.

Since then, I've made every possible move to ensure this and now time is catching up with me. Half of my applications have been sent out and the other half will be out by Monday morning.

I feel as though these past four years have prepared me to go into the workforce and get a great job but they haven't prepared me on to be happy. Each time I click "submit" or put postage on my grad school applications my heart pounds becacuse I know am finally going after something that I've wanted for so long.

This vacation is probably the best vacation I've ever had even though I'm working my butt off. This is because the end result is one that I've dreamed of and it's becoming a reality.

New Years Brings a New Beginning

As the new year approaches everyone begins making their New Year's Resolutions. Many of them are dietary or personality assessments. Around the holidays people like to self-evaluate themselves more than usual. It just so happens that there's a new year coming around the corner to make them feel better about their faults.

For college students, resolutions are almost impossible. We don't have time to think about changing our lives because for eight months of the year our lives don't belong to us; they instead belong to the colleges and universities we attend.

However, as a graduating senior I think I may be able to reconsider. I won't be making any resolutions as so much I'll be making plans. The next five months are the most crucial and dictate how I will spend the next one, two or five years of my life. School, work, travel or all of the above: I do not know.

I only know that now is the time to set an agenda. I have some thinking to do, like any other graduating student, and I can't sit on my decisions.

Club Lib...the New Place to Be

During the months of November and December, the libraries of colleges and universities across the nation have an influx of students. This is no coincidence, it's Finals time!

Professors like to assign all papers, quizzes, tests and final exams around the same time as they rush to get the last of their grades for report cards. By now one would think they'd realize it's not fair to students but that is not the case. While some professors try to make their assignments easier the work seems to still pile up.

When the workload gets high a student goes into overdrive and heads straight for the library. In the month of December I've seen more people at the library than at a wet t-shirt party in Cancun during Spring Break. The library has become so much populated that it has been renamed "Club Lib".

For the past two weeks and for the beginning of the next, like my peers I will be at Club Lib until the early hours of the morning. However, don't be fooled, just because it is technically the library doesn't mean much, the same crazies at the real club show up to Club Lib too.

Closing In

Today I had the pleasure of registering for my final semester of classes. I hit "submit" for the last time in my undergraduate life (who knows what the future will bring).

It was a rewarding feeling but it put things into perspective. It allowed me to trult understand that this the end the of road.

Four years ago when I moved into my dorm my final semester seemed so far away. Now as I look back that first move in day seems so far away and I can feel May 2010 closing in.

Crushes Smushes

When you're young, you are allowed to like people and gush about it but when you're adult it's not really okay.

As an adult when you "like" someone you are expected to make moves toward him or her. However, if you're like me then you just like people and that's that.

I hating crushing because it's a dead end to my feelings. I'm not that girl, I'm not so forward that I will make the first move. So in the meantime when I have crush I don't get happy I get angry because I know in the end it's going nowhere.

I Am Single Because

"I am single because" is currently a trending topic on Twitter. Being a single girl I found it interesting to see what people had to say about themselves. However, what I found most interesting and hilarious was how someone tried to use a pick up line on a Twitter Trending Topic.

Some guy wrote, "I single because I haven't met you". I read that and bursted into laughter. I just kept thinkg, "what the heck?"

It's just funny, there's really no point to my story except, I guess if you can't find a date in person you just pick one up on Twitter.