Is it really over?

[taylweaver]

So today was my last class. And I don't just mean my last class of the semester. Or of the school year. Or of this phase of my education - well, it is all those things, but it is also, I hope, the last class I will be attending for a while. This is it. I am officially done. Granted, I have one more assignment to hand in, but I intend to finish it tomorrow morning - it is that close to done. And then the only classes I will be attending will be the ones I am teaching.

I graduate a week from tonight, and after that, I will be done with being a student. That's a big deal.

It didn't really feel like a big deal, though. It was just another class. We all gave little six minute presentations - piece of cake - about assessments we had designed, because this was my assessment class. But it really didn't feel like the end. Maybe that's because I missed the party in last week's class, but I think I'm just really used to being a student.

Either that, or I am so ready to stop being a student that I am just taking for granted that my formal education is now over, at least for a while.

Either way, it's kind of strange that, as of next week, I'm not a student. No more student discounts (teacher discounts instead), or access to a computer lab with good printers. No more papers - except the ones I grade. No more homework - well, maybe I will end up taking my work home with me. I will finally have my Sundays back, and my evenings too. Time to actually read books, and to write (or is this too optimistic?)

And maybe I should stop babbling. I don't think reality has quite set in yet. Check back in with me tomorrow.

Oh, and while I am here, movie rec: Garden State is rather good - it has some rather serious stuff in it, but if you can handle serious and occasionally disturbing (depending on what disturbs you) it is well done. Even if I didn't recognize any of the NJ places in it. (which is why I rented it in the first place - to see NJ)

I also saw Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was rather entertaining in that subtle sit in my seat quietly grinning sort of way. Plus, since we didn't use Fandango, I finally got to use that movie gift certificate I got in December at the class holiday party.

And now I am off to bed.

Comments

Garden State

[(Anonymous)]

Clarification on exactly what's disturbing in the movie:
Drug use
Suicide (maybe)
Excessive use of medication (psychiatric types of meds, that is)
Graverobbing

Can't think of anything else right now, though I'm sure there's more...

Granted, the movie takes to absurdity the above topics, so they might not be as disturbing as they seem in the above list.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on being nearly done with being a student, from someone who ... will be a student for quite a bit longer.