Sunday, December 11, 2011

Bachelor of Arts

Done. I have now ended my 4.5 year journey as an undergraduate and I'm coming out of it feeling pre-tty anticlimactic. While most of this has to do with the fact that I already walked in the graduation ceremony in June and all I'm left to do now is pack up my stuff and leave, another part has to do with this impending nothingness and uncertainty that comes with graduating without a very concrete plan.

I started this blog merely as a way for me to keep a record of the adventures and happenings I will face now that I am officially done with school.

So what's next?
Well, now that I'm done I'm going to spend the next few weeks finishing my graduate school applications.  They're due early January and early February, so that's where I will spend the next month or so focusing all my energy.  But after that, I essentially have nothing to do but wait for the colleges to either accept or reject me.  I plan on staying in San Diego until March or so, working on my apps, working at my internship, and hopefully getting a part-time job.
I've also been feeling a huge desire to travel lately, and I think I want to go through with it. I just started looking at several volunteer abroad opportunities and I'm getting pretty excited. Hopefully I can gather enough funds to make it happen!

I also decided to make a bucket list of things I want to do during my time off from school.  This one's just a preliminary list... I'll add more as I think of them.

  • Read for fun
  • Start and maintain a daily journal
  • Craft more
  • Travel
  • Play with my Lomography camera more often
  • Write music again
  • Get piano skills back to my pre-college level
  • Bake more
And here's a list of actually pressing things I need to do before I can do any of the things mentioned above:
  • Graduate school applications
  • FAFSA
  • Find a part time job
  • Make some money to fund all the fun stuff I want to do (this has got to be the most depressing one)
I want to try to update as often as I can since I see this blog as a way to give my life structure through social pressure in case anyone actually follows and expects me to do the things I just said I'd do.

Cheers!

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