Well its been close to four months since my last post here. I guess in recent months I have had a lot on my plate, and now that school is over, I’m a little worried where I’ll end up. By the way, isn’t this where most college graduates are at in some point of their lives? I guess being 32 years old and have not arrived in the profession of my degree has given me a little anxiety. I know I have to trust in God. I also have not yet applied for any jobs. So that may be part of the problem. However, I know the solution, and that is exactly where I need to be headed.
I want to start this out with a few highlights of this past semester. The first one being my completion of all my classes at North Central and my pending graduation ceremony in May. Yes, since there was some trouble getting my mom to come out here in December, and after talking with her we decided it was best she would travel out to Minneapolis in May for the Big ceremony. So right now, I am just working and waiting for the day I receive my diploma. Pretty big deal right? However, I will be the one of the very few college graduates in my family and this includes my extended family as well. I may be the 3rd or 4th out of 17 cousins? My sister soon to follow in about a year and a half.
The second will be my completion of my Senior Project. This project is something that I am extremely proud of. For some of you that have watched and witnessed me work on my project, you knew how much effort and time I put into it. I did a research paper on church ministry burnout. Something that is not widely talked about in the church circles, but happens everywhere. My presentation on the project drew some pretty incredible praise by the department. Not only this was unexpected, but incredibly humbling. I never knew the magnitude that my project may have had on the professors who were listening to my presentation. There were some suggestions about teaching it in class and bringing it to the A/G district office to present, and maybe do a workshop on it. I was also given the opportunity to present it again in the department chapel the next day because it was so important for the future pastors in our department to hear. Talk about a humbling experience!
Another thing that happened is when I decided to move out of my apartment after December. I initially decided to live there at least through May, there was a sweet deal that came up along with a pretty sweet apartment with 3 pretty sweet roommates. While the move was bittersweet. It was bitter because I was leaving a lot of great friends on campus. Most of which I just had to walk across the street to see, and sweet because I am going to save a lot of money living a great apartment for a really good price.
Lastly, this is where maybe some of you are anticipating me finding a girl out here. Well It hasn’t happened yet. Are there prospects? Well there are always prospects, but none that has materialized into anything noteworthy.
This is how it feels like to be done with school! I am having a hard time plugging into activities into my free time because now there is no homework or classes to attend I don’t know what to do with myself. I need a vacation. I need another adventure. Have I arrived yet? Probably many cases I would say yes, but its… just…. boring.
Later,
Sokkha
Ahh, yes, the post graduation feeling of now what? I remember that feeling well, oh wait, I still have that feeling…lol.