jenny_wildcat | Entries tagged with graduation

First, before I get going too crazy,

rosevixen had one of these and the little geek in me just had to get in on this sweet action:

Moonlight the level 85 Umbreon!

Umbreon was always my favorite of the Eevee evolutions, which are made of win in and of themselves.

I r the smart! Utah State even says so (or they will when I finally get my diploma in the mail). As I embark on this journey of a four-year degree recipient, here are some random thoughts:

- It wouldn't be my last day in Logan without a snowstorm. I not only got my Bachelor's Degree, I also got a cold.
- The trends continue: when I graduated from Snow College with my Associate's, it was raining.
- For a room full of PhDs, you'd think that the professors who were coordinating this effort could come up with a more efficient way of getting us out into the Spectrum without making the claustrophobics crammed in the tunnel nervous.
- According to the HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; the college within Utah State that houses the English department) valedictorian, the world is going to hell because Plutarch said so ten million years ago (I'll have to take your word for it; I wasn't born then).
- They said they guy graduated in History and Classics with minors in Latin and Greek, but his speech said that he graduated with a Melodrama degree with a minor in Masculine Bovine Defecation. (if you got that joke, you deserve your degree)
- I don't think HASS students were really hip to attending sporting events. None of them sang The Scotsman (our very enthusiastic and rousing fight song) when about five of us in the row prompted.

Also in other great news: the Utah Jazz beat the Houston Rockets on the road in Game 7 . I am more than ecstatic about this because I have spent the past four years since Stockton retired and Malone went to the Lakers (*obligatory gag*) listening to all the fairweather fans talk about how bad the Jazz suck and why am I watching the games and assorted other kinds of bullcrap. Now the Jazz are back in the playoffs and even past the first round. And it was an exciting series. That's just the cherry on the cake. Apparently only three teams have won a series in seven games as the road team and the Jazz have made it four. Never let it be said that we shy away from records ^_^

I'll be home in the desert for a while, just chilling and packing away all my crap (I've got so much junk to pack in my room. I might be able to put it on eBay and make some money!)

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

Current Mood: calm

I meant to post something meaningful yesterday after my last day of classes (probably) ever, but I just didn't. So sue me.

I'm just a sentimental turd, I guess. After my class ended yesterday, I got all sighy and weepy, but that might have been because I was signing a nice little gift we did for our IWA advisor and she is such a sweet lady. She's almost been like a second mother to me while I've been at school and I got a little sad when I realized that I was going to be leaving her and all the girls in my IWA chapter. But it's okay because I get thinking about all the things I get to do now that I'm graduating (in seven days!) It's scary and it's exciting all at the same time.

I've had a big day today and it all started last night. I went with my aforementioned IWA chapter on an end-of-year retreat to our advisor's place in Richmond (she has this huuuuge house on a little farm-type thing in the foothills complete with a cabin, forest and creek!) and none of us got to sleep until 4:00 am this morning. Sugar+lots of hyper girls+improv games+"Night at the Museum" (instant classic, btw)=completely drained. I felt bad for the few who had to get up early this morning, but I didn't have to be anywhere until 3:00 this afternoon, so I was good. I spent the day packing up a few things and relaxing until...

Institute Graduation! My parents made the drive up here to come see me graduate from Institute, which I really appreciated. I also got to see my dad's new truck (squee!) A Ford F-350 Power Stroke very-lots-of-extended cab (backseat legroom in a pickup=totally made of win). I'm not sure what year, but it's a beauty (I'm not going to lie - I'm in love ^_^) [and my roommate just walked out of the room and turned the light off leaving me in the dark with just my computer screen for light -- thanks... really] Anyway, it's was a nice little ceremony for the 350-some-odd folky-days who actually bothered to graduate from Institute. I figure that I liked Institute more than actual college and I'm going to enjoy it as much as I can. The single 1 1/2 hour ceremony today won't be as draining as the two 3 hour commencement and graduation hooplas next week.

After the ceremony, Mom and Dad took me to dinner at Olive Garden (a family tradition whenever they come up here). We didn't talk about job stress for me much because I have a job interview on Monday in Salt Lake. It's for a position as an Information Specialist with the State of Utah Environmental Quality. I would be helping educate consumers, real estate developers and agents and helping promote radon testing and some other stuff that sounds pretty neat (well, to me, anyway). I'm really hoping this job come through because I know exactly where that office is, it would get me out and about and it's centrally located to everywhere I want to be! I'm hoping the interview goes well.

So, that was my day and now I'm extremely tired. I could very well take a nap, but by the time I woke up, it would be time for bed, so maybe I'll just go to bed. Whatever.

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

Current Mood: nostalgic

I've mentioned it an innumerable number of times and I will probably mention it another innumerable number of times before May 5: I have no idea what I'm doing after graduation and would people Please. Stop. ASKING!!!!!

Whoo, that's out of my system.

I just got off the phone with my mom and she's all "A little over a month until graduation... any ideas what you're going to do?" My response: "Play Xbox with my brother?"

Obviously, that is not a viable option and I would probably get sick of it after awhile. I know full well that I am going to get bored in Callao all summer, but also moving to Salt Lake scares the living tar out of me. Lots of scary people, lots of scary traffic, lots of rules that I am sure to break and I won't even have the excuse that I'm just a stupid college student who has no idea what the hell is going on.

Here's what must happen if I'm to make the move to the Big City:
1. Find a job
2. Find housing that I can afford with said job (and that lets me sleep above the floor)
3. Find said housing with at least one roommate (living alone=many a sleepless night)
4. Make friends and influence people (or just make friends)
I think most of my problem is that I don't really know anybody in the Salt Lake area. Where am I going to go if I have a problem? What if I all of a sudden have a financial situation and I can't get myself out of it? What if I get stuck somewhere and don't have anyone to call? What if I get really sick or hurt? I'm not a little kid anymore and I don't have my mom and dad to run to if I get in trouble. I'm supposed to be an adult now, but I don't think I'm really ready for this.

And then there's the prospect of getting a job. All I've heard my whole life is "When you get your college degree, you can go out and do whatever you want." Well, I very nearly have my college degree and I have no clue what I want to do, so there's really nothing that I can do. I don't know what's out there and available to me. I know that I can handle having a full time job because I did it last summer and I loved the job I had and I curse the fact that I had one more year of school left because I would have just kept it. That, and I want to be closer to my family because I missed too many things going on at home because I was stuck in Logan. If I can find a job in Salt Lake like the one I had last summer in Logan, I could handle that.

Geez, all this stress is killing me. I have to do something to unwind or I won't be sleeping tonight.

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

PS, If anyone in the Salt Lake area knows of a place that is looking for a smart, efficient, grammatically-skilled, quick-to-learn, Bachelors-in-English recipient, please float them my way. (Not to mention if you know of affordable housing or someone with housing looking for a roommate)

Current Mood: scared
Current Music: "Here is Gone" by the Goo Goo Dolls

Seeing as how it's about two months before I graduate college, I guess this is a good time to decide what the heck I want to do with myself after May 5.
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And I got nuthin'

Okay, it's not as bad as that. Graduate school has always been an option, but just not right away. Mostly because it takes five bajillion years and lotsa money in application fees to apply to even one grad program and even then, it's not a gurantee. I don't even know how grad school works. Add to the fact that most English grad programs require a proficiency in at least one foreign language (which, could someone please explain that to me?), it seems like a faraway possiblity, even for me (anyone who witnessed my foray into French last year can attest to this). Though, to my pleasant surprise, I found out that the MFA program at the University of Utah does NOT require foreign language! Oh happy day! That was one I was seriously considering, even though I hadn't done the research about it yet.

I think the problem is that for the past four years, I've been moving on a fast track, fast track, fast track. I have not gone one semester taking less than fifteen credits because I had to keep a scholarship. I've always been on the move and I haven't been able to enjoy learning as much as I wanted to (as incredibly geeky as that sounds). I want to take life easy for a little while, but that doesn't mean that I can't work on something like the GRE this summer and fall (since most grad programs' application deadline is in December for Fall enrollment). Maybe that's what I'll do.

More musings later

Love from,
Jenny Wildcat

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