As I reflect on all the past happenings this week to determine what to write about there’s one thing that keeps recurring in my mind, graduation. I am graduating in 3 weeks. Which is absolutely crazy to me. It hasn’t hit me at all and to be honest it doesn’t even feel like I’m graduating. I probably wouldn’t even know how many weeks we have left if it wasn’t for my roommates consistently counting down the days.
It feels as this I have been planning for big life milestone for so long that now that it’s approaching I am unsure what to do. Yes I know where I want to work after college and what I want to do, but it’s more than that.
It’s strange that we have been at college for the last four years more or less surrounded by the same people and professors and now we’re just not going to have that anymore. I think that is the part that feels the most weird to me. Yes I plan to keep in touch with all of them after graduating but there’s something to be said about seeing them pretty much everyday for the last four years to not seeing them at all, or only when it’s planned. They have been such a monumental part of my college career and developing me into the professional I am today. I often feel that if it wasn’t for the social work department I would have pursued half the opportunities I have while at Kutztown.
For now I am just taking it day by day and letting the fact that I’m graduating sink in little by little as I work to finish up my end of semester course work. I do not think it will truly sink in until I am walking across the stage at graduation.