Top 3 Reasons I Am Ready to Graduate

Korrin B.

April 17, 2011 - 9:00 AM

I have senioritis big time and, after talking to a friend of mine last week, I know I'm not alone. Senioritis is a real thing. We have to be strong. We have to fight to the finish line. Until then, there is time for dreaming of what the other side will look like. Therefore, this blog is dedicated to the top three reasons why I am ready to graduate. I'm not entirely sure they are my top, top three and I'm not necessarily ranking them in order, but regardless, they are important and noteworthy and, so, here goes!

1.) NO MORE HOMEWORK: As a college student, weekends and nights are not typically what they should be. At least, they haven't been for me most of this year. I am looking forward to the blissful reality of going to work and then coming home to nothing to do. I want to do my work at work and then come home and not have to write three papers and study for four tests, etc. I am really looking forward to the break. I got a taste of it last summer. I would do my internship from 9-5 and then would get back to my house and twiddle my thumbs, feeling anxious about not having anything to do. Eventually, the anxiety went away and I realized how to embrace the beauty. It will be, oh, so sweet.

2.) A NEW ENVIRONMENT: Eugene, I love you, but it is time for me to move on. Your college students are getting younger and younger. I can't relate to them as well anymore. And, although your mellow nature will always whisper home, I need some new pizzazz. I need some new excitement. I want fresh faces and new places. You've been great, you really have. You're an excellent college town and I swear I will come back to visit you, but I need to move on. We both saw this coming. I'm sorry.

3.) PLEASURE READING: I kind of forgot what these words meant. Even while I was typing them for my number three reason, I was a little confused as to what I meant. Then it dawned on me that this is because I haven't really gotten to do any pleasure reading in FOREVER. I forgot what it was. My reading time has been filled with textbooks and assigned articles posted on Blackboard for the past five years. I have read some interesting things, yes, but they have not been quite as enjoyable as they could have been because I was forced to read them. I have a stack of books I have been wanting to read for the past several years and soon, oh, so soon, I may actually have the time to start one and not have to read it in a matter of ten weeks.