Is it really over?
May. 10th, 2005 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taylweaverSo 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.
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.
