Class of 2019

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Hey there my gems,
I haven't been writing in quite a while but I wanted to let you all know that I am officially a University graduate!! I walked across the stage a few weeks ago and haven't gotten a chance to let you know but it's time to let you all in on how it went down!

Even though classes ended months ago and I've been working full time ever since, I loved every moment of the long ceremony. Let's start with the fact that it was a three hour long event which, as much as I appreciate the speeches, was SO LONG. I honestly thought all the way up to the day of that I would be super unaffected by the whole day. I knew I was graduating, I had been working for months, I didn't at all feel sad to be leaving school and I really wasn't excited about attending my ceremony because I thought it would be long and boring.

Then the day came, next thing I know my hair and nails are being done and the whole family is dressed up. I started to feel nostalgic and a little sentimental but the moment that really brought it all home was when I officially put on that cap and gown. Wow. No words can describe the feeling of looking at myself in the mirror and realizing that I had done something that really was worth celebrating. I completed a degree in three year and maintained great grades. I always loved school and realizing that I would never go back wasn't as emotionless as I thought it would be.

I can't really describe the feeling, but there's a sense of pride, sadness and just pure overwhelming anxiety that's all wrapped into the moment when you walk across the stage and realize everything you've been working for, crying about, losing sleep over, etc. has finally been achieved.

I think the best way to describe it is that your whole life you work towards something. In high school it's every test that you stress over to get to the final graduation. When you finally make it there, you are freaking out over the next big thing which is getting into college. Finally you make it there and you continue to work through the exams and stress until you get into the next big thing; University. And then after three or more years, one or more degrees, you finally walk across the stage at your final grad, and then there is no next big things! The work all paid off and the grades were all made.

That is definitely the most clearly I could explain the feeling that I had walking across the stage on my graduation day. Yup, very loaded, but I guess when you take your first real steps into the rest of your life, it's got to be a big one.

So go get every goal my gems, and crush them all!
And when you walk across the stage of the final one, well, it's time to get some new ones!

Talk soon,
T

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