Leaders and Best

[liptonrm_backup]

I'm a college graduate. It's too surreal for words. I sat in Michigan Stadium on Saturday, in a cap and gown, and listened to people tell me it was time to get on with the rest of my life. Wow, I think I should be bouncing off the walls. Maybe it all just hasn't sunk in yet, maybe it never will. Life is like that, I've found. You follow one more step after another and try to make the choices that will improve your life and well-being, strive not to have regrets and hope for the best. Life continues on and such it is.

You know, I bet existential meanderings are par in course for people in my situation. College graduates and BA recipients, we all think we're deep and stuff, but we're really just pretentious;-). Just be glad I majored in history and not philosophy; just imagining that crisis is enough to make me want to climb under my desk and not come out for a year, or so;-).

Actually, Saturday was really cold, but the commencement speaker was really good, so I'll forgive them the bad weather;-). It didn't rain, thankfully, but my toes were very cold in the new strappy sandles I bought for the occasion. I then went home and slept until Sunday (seriously).

So, anyone know of a company who's looking for an affable, bilingual, history major?;-)

Comments

[shirebound]

Congratulations!!!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Thank You!!!!

[drunken-buzzard.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! You are now officially finished with Part I of the "Get a Wolverine degree and go back to school" program. :)

Hopefully, this works out much better for you than it did for me. And I'm jealous that your speaker was good. I had some foreign guy that you couldn't understand at all. And after the variety of GSI's I had, I thought I could comprehend any accent!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, not exactly sold on that particular after-graduation plan... Though, talk to me in half a year and I'll probably be singing another tune;-).

Eeew, just what you didn't need, commencement speaker with a weird accent. Must have been a truly painful experience. I think I prefer the cold;-).

Yay Megan!

[(Anonymous)]

and i'm such a dunce i totally forgot! you can smack my hand later...
but seriously, congratulations to you :) you earned!

Re: Yay Megan!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

You are not a dunce, but... now I expect a ginormous graduation gift just because you forgot all about little ol' me. *pout* What, you can see the poorly concealed snicker behind the overly theatric pout? Dang, I've gotta work harder on that;-).

Anyway, thank you. I most certainly did earn it!;-)

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I'm not sure it ever sunk in for me, but then I spent only 8 months in the "real" world before heading right back to school! Well, to a different school. In a different country. For a more advanced degree. But still. ;P I must like the academic environment a little too much or something...

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And hee hee, that's what all of my post-undergrad friends say;-). I'm getting the impression that the 'real' world really sucks and that we're all better off in the academic world anyway. I'll have to see how it goes...

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. The "real" world is overrated, I say. ;P

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Congrats!! Good for you!

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! And just you wait, your own freedom is closer then it appears!;-)