May 12, 2013
365 days to the date since I received my college diploma.
"I confer the degree of bachelor of [Arts] and be admitted into the company of educated men and women."
I've spent the past week trying to remember what I did during my last week as an undergrad. Everything is a blur except graduation day and the day before it. Oh, and the day after graduation is surprisingly vivid given that I hadn't sleep at all between the morning of May 12, 2012 and the evening of May 13th, 2012.
I've been listening to St. Louis' Wild 104.9 because the last half of the semester has been spent getting to know the people that I call my friends, and many of those moments we shared together have been underscored by pop music. For the next few months poppy music is going to be very sentimental.
I have worked in the same office, with mostly the same people for the last five years. Everything I know about writing, and especially about revising and editing, I owe to these people. This also includes most of what I know about baking from scratch, smiling through the worst of days, being an individual part of a team, and creating a family among your colleagues. :) (PS: That means that all grammar mistakes I ever make are not because I did not have a strong team teaching me better.)
It's interesting that I have grown to love the greater St. Louis area more in the last 9 months than in the four years before it. More interesting is how much I will miss this city. I spent four years trying to get out, and now I'm all sad and mushy about it. I look forward to being back.
365 days after graduation. I have learned, and I have grown. I made a few mistakes, and built stronger relationships. I failed some, and I won some more. Here's to the hopefulness of summer, and to another year as a post-grad.
xoxo
