This is happening!

I just turned in my last paper for my major!!!! I wish ya'll could all see my face and the victory dance I am doing in the library right now...actually, on second thought  the lack of a visual might be a good thing here. I'm not quite finished with everything yet, I still have a huge-ass paper, presentation, exam, and evaluation left before I am completely finished  but all of those things have to do with my minor. I am completely done with my MAJOR! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

My major is educational studies by the way. Educational Studies basically means its the ed major without the teacher licensure. Its for people that don't want to be actual teachers but want to work with kids...like children's ministry for example. :)
I have loved my major. Mostly because it is much more project based than papers. But not to worry, my minor in religion more than made up for the lack of education papers. I also loved my major because I am good at it. The classes and material came very easy to me--which was nice because school is not something that comes easy to me.

SO....as of 12:11am, on April 24th, I am DONE with my education major. WOW! I legit never thought this would happen. Like really. Yes, I have been working toward graduation, but I really never thought it would happen. I honestly expected there would come a semester that I was just done-- I would drop out, do the journeyman program and then move full-time to the mission field. Different semesters I stayed for different reasons but I always expected to leave in the end. Now that I am 17 days, 15 pages, 1 presentation, and 1 evaluation away from graduation, it feels very strange. You know that feeling you get when you wake up in a new place and it takes a minutes to get your barring because what is around you just isn't what you expected? Yeah...that is life right now. I'm not disappointed that this is my life...its just not at all what I expected. I know its crazy that what I was working toward and what I thought would happen are two different things, but that is just how life happens sometimes.

I have been in a haze for days...weeks even! I have been trying to wrap my brain around actually graduating from college. But when I hit submit for the last paper of my major....that was it. That sealed the deal. It became real in a great way! College has been a great 4 years. (4 years plus a victory lap.) It has also been extremely hard at times.  I had made some amazing friends, grown so much and seen a tiny glimpse of what the world has to offer. I have struggled, cried and completely hit rock bottom. I can't sum up college in one post....or even 1,000 post for that matter. Its just college.

And now I am (almost) done! Wow.