The Waiting Game
The start of my final paper
I laid in bed after submitting my final exam for my final class on 12/20/2020 I wrote the following not knowing if I was going to publish it or not
As this day ends I didn’t imagine how it would go. I spent 5 years and 3 months writing discussion post, replying to classmates, writing papers, starting a blog, creating power pints for a total of 31 classes, and today that all came to an end. When I submitted my final assignment I cried and not tears of sadness but of tears of joy and relief. I could have graduated this year if I didn’t mess up last year but I realized that it wasn’t my time yet. This is my second degree and I know I earned this one. I have all the assignments and the student loan bills to prove it. At times I thought about graduating sooner by taking 2 or 3 classes at a time but I know I could not do that. My schedule was already full so more school would have been madness for me. I’m so happy that I have a great family and they have been with me through all of this. At one time all of us were in school together and that was such a wonderful feeling to know we were all achieving our greater goals of world domination. 😹😹. No really I don’t think I could do this without my sisters and mom. Now I have to find something to feel that space.
It was so weird that when I wrote that I had some choices that I had to make on my future and one of them was looking for a job in my new field and also trying to figure out if I wanted a bigger presence on social media. Before I ended class I decided that I wanted to start a website. I already had a blog on Wordpress called Sneakers And Handbags but I wanted to expand it and also move it to be different place where I had more creative control on the visuals. So I started my website of the same name. After that I received an email that my degree was conferred effected 1/1/2021 and I was officially a graduate with a Bachelor of Science Marketing.
I still cry when I think about it. I ordered my cap and gown that day and received it a week later. February 2nd I received my degree in the mail and it was officially over. I do not know if I will ever get over the shock of being a 2 time college graduate. I look at my Associates degree and I feel that was a big accomplishment for a 21 year old young woman who didn’t know exactly what I was going to do with it, but to get my Bachelor’s at the age of 45, while working a full time job and having a YouTube channel was something if you asked me 20 years ago that I would be doing I would say no that’s just too much for one person to handle.