On October 20th, I received some of the best news of my life. My last project paper for school passed. What started out as a journey in 1994 is finally over. I am now officially a college graduate. Words can't even express how I feel right now. Not gonna lie, I went home from work that day and was dancing around my house like Rerun on "What's Happening".
There was a point where I only had 4 classes left and I honestly wanted to quit. Luckily I knew this was foolish and I persevered. Then I had two classes left. I had a technical writing class which meant I needed to write a project proposal paper about 20-25 pages in length. My paradox is I'm actually good at writing, but I hate doing it. It was at this point where I felt like I would never finish, but with my wife cheering me on I finished that paper in less than 7 days. Last class left was to write another paper on the completion of the project, also 20-25 pages. I spent 10 hours straight on Sunday writing that paper and I submitted it for grading.
I could hardly concentrate at work the next day, as I kept checking Taskstream to see where my paper was at in the queue. I started off as number 9 that Sunday night, and I was still number 9 in the queue when I got to work Monday morning. Then a few hours later I was number 6. About two hours before the end of work I saw my paper was being reviewed. I don't know if I've ever been more anxious in my entire life. At this point there was no point in even trying to concentrate on work anymore as I kept anxiously hitting the refresh button every 15 minutes.
When I saw that the paper had passed, I threw my hands in the air like Rocky. My co-workers looked at me like I was crazy but I didn't care. I was so happy I didn't know what to do with myself. I immediately sent a text to my wife and my siblings. It still hasn't TRULY set in yet that I'm finally done with my Bachelors. And anyone who tells you that all online degrees are easy, obviously never attended Western Governors University because that school is NOT easy. You will definitely EARN your degree.
Graduation will be in Orlando at Disney, so my wife and I plan to make a mini-vacation out of the weekend. For those of you out there thinking about going back to school or trying to finish up, you can do it! What worked for me is I would visualize myself sitting in the crowd listening to the graduation ceremony. I also envisioned myself walking across the stage to get my diploma.
