Why this academic year is going to be the best ever

Hey all!

Who’s excited to go back to school!?! At the beginning of the month I would have had the intense urge to slap anyone who asked that question, but I’ve been through the 5 stages of pre-semester grief. This week I’ve even gone from acceptance to excitement. Yeah, okay, I have to write my thesis this semester… BUT THEN IT’LL BE DONE. I’ll have more time for other projects in the fall.

It feels a bit like musical chairs. If you don’t grab a job or a grad school fast enough, your ass hits the floor.

Also, who’s not at least a little excited about receiving their Bachelor’s? Sure, the job market is scary, and so is applying to grad school, but nobody can take away that degree once we have it. It’s one step in life that we will have accomplished. It offers more security. Even if we’re going on to grad school, we won’t have that nagging fear of failing or dropping out for unknown reasons and not having a college degree at all. Even if we drop out of grad school, we’ll have Bachelor’s degrees, you guys!

After this August, I’m ready to be busy a lot. I’m vacationed OUT. This semester I will again have a job and an internship along with my classes because of the CCNY Writing Center and the Colin Powell Center’s Partners for Change Fellowship, respectively. I’m excited because I need stuff to do or I’m going to melt into my chair and never get up again!

I don’t know how it is for everyone else, but our summer are way too long. I took classes during June, traveled during July, and tried really hard to find stuff to do in August. Okay, fine, my boyfriend moved in, but other than that, nothing happened 😛

ZERO.

How is it that America barely gives vacation to working adults but throws three months of summer vacation at schoolchildren and college students?! Isn’t it time for some redistribution or something??

Anyway, this year is my last at City College. It’s going to be full of classes I want to take and people I want to see, then I’m moving on to grad school. I’ll most likely stay in my current apartment, so anybody that is near CCNY when I’m home can stumble on in 😀

So, this academic year is going to be the best ever because my roomies are amazing, I am close to my degree, almost every class I am going to take is one that I chose instead of one that I had to take, and I’m learning how to cohabit with my boyfriend. My reward for writing my thesis is going to be CHRISTMAS and then A VISIT FROM MY SPAIN BFF, CHARLOTTE, WHO IS VISITING FROM NEW ZEALAND WITH HER BOYFRIEND!

Then my boyfriend is turning 22. Then I’m going to hear back about grad school. AND THEN I’ll only have one semester left… a semester during which I will already be done with my thesis. Of course, I’ll have to work on the final project for Partners for Change, but I think my time management with the thesis/project splitting is pretty great. Oh and I decided that I’m going to visit my parents at least once a month ^.^

heheh.

Lastly, I’m pretty sure I’m going to go somewhere for Spring break. I still have 2,500 left in my Macaulay Opportunities Fund if I don’t ask to be paid back for the GRE fee. That’s enough for an alternative Spring Break. I can take a break from school and volunteer somewhere!

This year is going to be amazing because I say it’s going to be amazing. I love my family, boyfriend, roomies, friends, job, classes, and city. Yeah, Senior year is a bit scary because it’s our last chance to mess up what we’re about to get, but replace your stress with hope. If you sit down like I just did and try to count the awesome things in your life, you might be surprised. It’s great pre-semester therapy, especially if you’re not yet through the 5 stages of pre-semester grief.

Much love to you all,

Julia