They Have Faith

The University is recognizing exemplary students on Friday night, and yours truly happens to be one of them. I am apparently slated to graduate Cum Laude, I think, in my major only. Still, I have worked really hard to always get good grades, and not just to get high grades, but because I actually believed that if I did all the assignments, and put a lot of heart into them, I would come out of the system having taken full advantage of my education. In other words, I didn't want to miss a thing. Throughout this experience I have wanted to take the path that would push me, that would make me grow. It has definitely been worth it.

I'm not sure what my grades are going to be for my final semester. Things appear to be going well, but one of my instructors just doesn't seem to get my writing. I'm not clear enough, I'm too wordy, etc. I'm going to talk to him tomorrow, and hopefully we will be able to communicate better in person, and I can get some helpful feedback in order to fulfill the assignments to his and my liking. Which of course means As. I got a B+ on my Medieval Lit Midterm -- no big surprise, it's not my thing. The final is on poetry explication, which I'm fairly good at. I'm almost sure that I can pull an A- in that class. The seminar in lit class is going swimmingly, all As, and the Studies in Lit and Comp. Class is also going well. That just leaves the two American Lit classes with The Professor That Doesn't Understand Me. I don't dislike him, but I'm sad that we aren't communicating well.

I don't know where my grade point average will end up, so maybe this convocation will be just be a glimmer of the dream of graduating with honors, but even then, I still enjoy a party that celebrates my academic achievement. Which, by the way, has certainly been something to behold!

Graduation is very close, and my future is uncertain at the moment. I'm probably going to spend the next "semester" researching on my own, and sending a horde of applications out to various schools. I just don't know where the money is going to come from, and then, when I'm finished with graduate school, what the education system will look like. I can always do hair, but after all this hard work, it seems a little depressing to think of the future of education in this state. But we'll see. The University seems to have faith that I'll keep my grade point average up, so perhaps I should have a little faith in the University.