over
I don’t know what I should be saying; I only know that I have to say something. These last 4 years, this chunk of time I call my University career, came to an end yesterday and I am struggling to recover from that slowwalk across the stage and into the arms of our president, Dennis Cochrane. That was the end. But also, as I tried my very best to concentrate on the trillions of things I had on my mind as I took my 5 seconds of fame, I was walking through a door that lead to the rest of my life.
Yesterday was sad. Of course it was; it was the end of this comfortable period, this warm embrace of a campus that has known me better than my own family. It marked the end of some of my favourite memories and reminded me that today, my first full day as STU alumna, it’s the beginning of this future I was promised on my first day. September 4th 2007 I left behind another comfort and traded it in for the memories and moments I’ve enjoyed here. Yesterday, I made another trade; yesterday, the rest of my life began.
And so now I’m sitting here in my basement room apartment and I am wondering what happens next. Where does one go from here? I have a job, I still have my friends, and not a whole lot has actually changed. In this moment, and in many to come, I am still the same person I was yesterday, and the day before, so really actually little has changed on the outside. But there is a small part of me that is jumping for absolute job and who is so incredibly excited for this next step, this next jump into another unknown. And I honestly can’t wait. I was scared, but now I feel ready. I am prepared. And I don’t care what anyone says, I am going to succeed.
