A necessary update
Life is crazy right now. Within the last week I turned 23, I interviewed for and then landed a job working as a Satellite Analyst contractor for NOAA (with potential to go government), took two final exams and have now received all my final grades (2 B's and a C which I in all seriousness couldn't be happier with haha), and today I graduate. I'm going to walk across a stage and shake hands with someone I do not really know and will receive in all likelihood an empty diploma folder to be filled later. I guess all of this hasn't quite hit home yet. I'm excited and kind of nervous. I'm wondering how successful I'll be in real life and realizing that I've been in school (to at least some extent) for about 18 years now. That blows my mind. Completely blows my mind.
This Sunday is my graduation party. All of my wonderful girl friends are coming to town to meet my family and the place that had a huge part in making me who I am. I'm ridiculously excited about it. It'll also be fun to have the entire family together (for the most part anyway).
I'm proud to have made it here. There were times where I seriously doubted I could... times where I wondered why I even bothered to come here. Now I couldn't be happier to have started, endured, and now completed this crazy journey. I'm kind of sad it's coming to an end. Only a little, though. I'm ecstatic to be starting my career.
The rest of my life is starting.
