First off, our Residence Life staff does a great job of putting events on throughout the campus seven days a week. Last night Kate, one the ACA's in the 100 Townhouse Areas. Each semester, the ACAs are required to put on an education. Last night, Kate invited Dan Couture, a representative from Financial Aid, to come speak with us. And he was great - very informative but provided humor into a situation where it was needed. Participants ranged from people who didn't even know they had financial aid to people who already had their post-graduation budget planned. He explained terms, consolidating ideas, deferring from grad school. It definitely lived up to it's name of "educational," but like I said we were all able to share some laughs over the whole loan repayment process.
It literally had been gorgeous here since last Saturday. The sun has been shining every day and everyone's pulled out the summer clothes (you'll quickly learn that 50 degrees is like a heat wave in Vermont). Frisbee practice has started in the quad already. And while it looks like a rainy weekend, they said that last Saturday, too. So let's keep our fingers crossed for at least some blue skies!
I was suppose to go home for an appointment tomorrow, but it's canceled. While most of my roommates are off-campus for the weekend (an extremely rare occasion in our apartment), I've just decided to stay here, catch up on some sleep ... and write my LAST paper. It's a 10-page paper for my Media and Iraq class, and I'm writing it on the comparison between the coverage of athletically-related servicemen and those who do not necessarily have athletic affiliations. I have a passion for sports, so I'm actually really looking forward to writing it. Scary, however, to think it may be the last paper I ever write!
While I just realized that three weeks from today will be my last college classes ever, I'm beginning to be okay with it. I've finally accepted that fact that I am not, in fact, returning to St. Mike's next year. I'm still looking for different jobs and deciding if I will accept my offer to grad school. It's all going to work out. And the day after graduation all of my roommates and three of our other friends are leaving for Florida on vacation for a week. Just another way to delay this so called "real world" a little longer ...
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