Graduation

My dad called the other night to ask about the boys visiting (to which I very happily said yes) and also to ask me what day my graduation was on.

After some initial frustration at the CSU, Chico web page I found what I was looking for. The date of my graduation...and then it began to sink in...I am graduating in 4 months. I will have a degree to hang on the wall (sometime after...apparently they don't really hand you the diploma at the ceremony). Now I have put some thought into the whole crossing the stage thing and am absolutely certain that I want to do it, I want as many people there as I can possibly have...they want you to keep it small but it is in the stadium so screw 'em.

Here is my logic:

When I graduated basic training there was no one there, not that I blame anyone (come on it was in South Carolina for crying out loud) but I do feel a little shorted. Now basic training was by far tougher than college, but it was squeezed into two short months and it is easy to hang in there and keep your eye on the goal for two months...this has been 4 1/2 years of my life, during which I have sat (on occasion) and thought that this was stupid, that I had a good job at Dell, that I was too old to go to college...see I had lots of time to talk my self out of it but I stuck with it and am finally here...in 4 months I will realize this goal and my life will change (again). I want everyone who has been there for me, encouraging, congratulating and supporting me to be there and celebrate (yell really loud...lol). I could not have made it with out you all helping me.

I keep coming up on the whole graduation idea by accident like...lol...like it is waiting around the corner and jumps out to surprise me...I have a lot of stuff to do...like applying for a job, internship, license all that minor stuff...it is a little nerve wracking, and not necessarily in that order.

Anyway... Sunday, May 21 9:00am I will no longer be a college student...

C