The final college thing

Today, some time before 11:00 in the morning, I finally delivered the project that will hopefully rid me of college for good.

It’s unbelievable that I managed to do the entire Final College Thing (as I call it) by myself and to deliver it, not just on time, but long before most did, as indicated by the near-empty shelves which prompted my remark of “Oh! Looks like everyone delivered already!” to the lady who works there and who gently placed the two full-color, book-bound copies of my Final College Thing, along with the original proposal and two labeled CDs, on the empty space that hopefully carried all of the Graphic Design projects at the end of the day. She wished me luck, and I responded by thanking her and wishing her, and the lady who was in another office, a nice day.

Finally, free.

All I’ve got to do for now is wait … I must wait until the projects are graded. An A grade would mean that one of the two copies of my project will be permanently placed in the library for everyone to see and consult, while a B grade will have my project somewhere in the Arts department, for their use. A C would mean neither, but I’m not really counting on that. Whichever is the case, I’ll be returned one copy (or both, if I were to get a C), with all the scratches observations and annotations made by our teachers/advisers. I’m pretty sure I addressed most of the observations, warnings and whatnot the first time around, when I delivered a draft of the project one week ago, to the day.

I must also wait for some new courses to open up. I can’t be done with college until I complete my remaining 18 hours by doing a course on something. I had signed up for a course on Flash (meh), which would take place right on campus, but it was canceled for some reason, and none of the other courses on the list are of my interest –well, Flash isn’t, either, but it’s one of the few things that had to do with graphic design … and it was 20 hours–. I’ll have to check the college website often for new courses and to see if/when my grades are published. I’m not worrying too much about either thing, the grades or the hours, because I know that my Final College Thing is above decent and I’ve got until the end of July to do my hours and sign up for graduation. If I don’t make that, I can always graduate on January, or whenever the next one is.

Now that I’m pretty much free, my mind is clearer than it has been in a while, and I can take this time to improve myself in various aspects. I must try to become more independent and healthier, both things on a somewhat equal level of importance –because my health sucks and I ken lee can’t live with the parents forever–. I should also try and see what I can do about my appearance. Face or full-body transplants aren’t quite there yet, and my wardrobe is, uh …  well, I’ll have to work with what I’ve got for now. There’s also the whole finding-a-source-of-income thing, but that somewhat depends on the other things I mentioned … which could also be helped by a source of income. Endless cycle, but one step at a time.

While I pretty much abandoned this blog in favor of my Final College Thing, I didn’t entirely stop posting a few lines of text about what I’ve been doing since the last 15th and until now. Seeing as Google Buzz was made available to me, whether I wanted it or not, it proved useful in allowing me to release some of what was in my mind into my Google profile (feel free to follow me there, or nag me, etc.). If reading that is of any interest to you, reader, posts relevant to the Final College Thing are from March 2 (before the last post here) and until last night, April 14. I originally meant to post most, if not all, of the relevant tweets messages in a series of posts here, but they became too many and they’re even less interesting than my regular blog posts, if that’s even possible.

So, today marks my return to blogging and the end of most of my college torments. The college tag is not yet ready to be abandoned, but you can expect to see it less often, reader. I’ve only got those remaining hours, my grades and graduation … hopefully in that order.

I generally include an image, or a series of images in my post, but I can’t be bovvered bothered to mess with that quirky camera, and even less to fire up Inkscape and create an illustration. College has left me exhausted, with too many restless nights and many more days in front of the computer … which I’ll hopefully format on Sunday to get a fresh start (and because it has slowed down to a crawl on everything).

For tomorrow, and as part of that whole improvement thing, I’ll get a haircut. The usual haircut, but I’ll get there on my own and I’ll get it because I want to, not because I absolutely have to.

Now … you’d best go away, reader. I hear that there are some good posts out there with actual images in between the text. Find them! Now!

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