Graduation

Remember how I broke my foot freshman year? Luckily that was before this blog, or else the whole server might explode with an overload of angst.
(That was a very hard time for me, I was happily adjusted. I had friends who were girls for the first time ever. I loved college.
Then I was sent home to cold Minnesota winter to stay in bed with only my very-not-college student family for company. Even all my friends from home were gone, off at their own schools.)

Not to mention that I had to miss an entire semester of school. That meant I would graduate one semester late.
Add that to the fact that I do pretty poorly in lots of things (lets not discuss failing my religion classes.)
And to the fact that I usually take about 12 credits a semester because I'm lazy and have a 20hour a week job and a husband to spend time with. Remember, Dad, how often you like to remind me that if you only take 12credits a semester you will graduate years later than you should.
Aaand to the fact that before last semester I never once did a grad plan or looked at required classes and only took what I felt like taking. You know, like writing poetry (not required) and chemistry (not required), creative writing (not required), and Writing YA literature (not required).

I fully expected and had accepted the fact that I would be here for another 2 years. I would graduate after 5 or 6 years at college, maybe.

But the other day, I laid out a grad plan. And miracle of miracles, I can not only graduate on time,
I can graduate a semester EARLY.

Whatwhatwhaaat! I don't even have to work extra hard. I would just take 6 credits each during spring and summer and then my last 15 creds during fall. I could graduate in December.

I will not however, be graduating a semester early. I just want you all to know that I can.
Because if I take Spring classes then I wouldn't get to go Africa.
And I wouldn't get to take those last few not-required, much-desired classes, like Writing YA literature (again- and not because I failed it, but because I loved it), and Children's Media, and Children's literature. (You see a theme, you say? I don't know what you mean...)
Anyways.
Just all of you think and realize something to yourselves, where ever you are: Cs get degrees and slacking gets you exactly where you would have been if you did not slack.

Maybe thats a bad moral to my story.

Here's a new moral: Even if things are hard and bad things happen to good people, everything will work out for the best and you can graduate college early if you want to.
:)

Have a good Hump Day. (Not, of course, referring to the film or anything dirty. Only to the fact that it is Wednesday and Wednesday is Hump Day.)