SO CLOSE! SO CLOSE!

It has been a long yet fun journey. I am two finals away from wrapping up my college career. Just today I sent in my graduation application. I was hesitant as I submitted the online form, thinking back to a time when I didn't even know how to apply for graduation. It is relieving and terrifying. It is a relief because I truly could use a break. It is terrifying because I will no longer have the same comforts available to me as they were in college.

Regardless, day-by-day I become more and more confident that this is truly a new beginning. I have learned so many valuable lessons in college, as well as taken in a whole world of knowledge that I could never imagine that I would enjoy so much. I have made friends that will last a lifetime, and built memories that I will laugh about well into my nursing-home days.

There are so many questions in the back of my mind. Will I find a job soon? Will I have any trouble looking for an apartment? Do I want to go back to school in the near future? and Am I happy with all of the choices that I have made? The answers to the first three questions can be answered with questions marks. The last question however can be answered with a solid YES. I am happy with my choices. Everything that I have been through up until now has shaped me as a student and a person. I have the rest of my life ahead of me, and many years to continue to go through changes that make me stop and ask myself if I can get through it or not. The answer is almost always yes, and I am confident that this nameless path ahead of me is one that will be filled with the very thing that keeps me smiling at the end of each day. Opportunity.

I wish you all luck with finals and the other challenges that come with the end of a semester. Just remember to take a little time to breathe =]


-Kaili