Wait, it's cold out there...
Nevermind getting my music minor signed off on, on Thursday I got my whole degree signed off on. Which means I won't be in school until December like I thought, I'll be in school until August, when I'll be taking two six-week-long summer courses to finish up my last two requirements. This was completely unexpected. My advisor just handed me two requirements I didn't think I had completed, and then told me I should attend the departmental graduation in a few weeks.
The news left me feeling stunned and kind of numb, and like someone was pushing me out the door before I'd gotten my hat and coat. I walked around campus, realizing that this was the end of my last semester here. These are some of the last days I'll be walking around as a student here. The end of student discounts, the end of having a key to a practice room with a piano all my own in it, the end of being able to take a literature class, or a Russian class, or any class, just for the heck of it... So many things I have come to take for granted will just be disappearing in a few months' time, yet I won't have the advantages that other people have who have been living in the "real world" for a while now. It's kinda funny, since college seemed so much the "real world" after being cooped up in my parents' biosphere for so long, yet now I realize just how truly it was just a step towards the actual real world.
What will I be doing now? I'm going to have a period of a year and a half waiting for Isaac to finish his degree, before we can move out of this wretched place called Long Island. So I'm thinking, since I don't want to quit my lessons before I absolutely have to -- I've got too much personally invested in so many of my students, plus the fact that I love it, I'll try and get some part-time temp work for the mornings. That'll give me experience doing different things, and give me some much-needed padding for my bank account before I venture off to a new place to start grad school and/or make a new life. That is, unless my Preview Gallery work starts paying off more, and then maybe I can afford to just stay home and work on that.
In the meantime, I hope to rediscover the things that I once did to relax and express myself -- reading , composing and recording, exercising for fun... And maybe even start some new hobbies. I'm obsessed with getting a bike so I can ride around and feel the wind in my hair. I guess that's all I really need sometimes... the wind in my hair.
The news left me feeling stunned and kind of numb, and like someone was pushing me out the door before I'd gotten my hat and coat. I walked around campus, realizing that this was the end of my last semester here. These are some of the last days I'll be walking around as a student here. The end of student discounts, the end of having a key to a practice room with a piano all my own in it, the end of being able to take a literature class, or a Russian class, or any class, just for the heck of it... So many things I have come to take for granted will just be disappearing in a few months' time, yet I won't have the advantages that other people have who have been living in the "real world" for a while now. It's kinda funny, since college seemed so much the "real world" after being cooped up in my parents' biosphere for so long, yet now I realize just how truly it was just a step towards the actual real world.
What will I be doing now? I'm going to have a period of a year and a half waiting for Isaac to finish his degree, before we can move out of this wretched place called Long Island. So I'm thinking, since I don't want to quit my lessons before I absolutely have to -- I've got too much personally invested in so many of my students, plus the fact that I love it, I'll try and get some part-time temp work for the mornings. That'll give me experience doing different things, and give me some much-needed padding for my bank account before I venture off to a new place to start grad school and/or make a new life. That is, unless my Preview Gallery work starts paying off more, and then maybe I can afford to just stay home and work on that.
In the meantime, I hope to rediscover the things that I once did to relax and express myself -- reading , composing and recording, exercising for fun... And maybe even start some new hobbies. I'm obsessed with getting a bike so I can ride around and feel the wind in my hair. I guess that's all I really need sometimes... the wind in my hair.
posted by Alison at 3:38 PM
1 Comments:
As someone who took nine months to kick and claw her way from college into the real world--firstly, congrats! Even if it doesn't feel like a good thing just yet. Secondly, thus far I've been finding that the real world isn't too bad even when you're a bit behind the curve, as I was. You can afford to take your time and try things out a bit, which is good. You'll catch up quicker than you think.
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