Graduating!!!!

At Last! After seven years I have finally finished my bachelor's degree and will be doing the infamous graduation walk tomorrow! In what you ask? Health Promotion and Education, and to be honest I don't know that I really want to be a health educator but I guess it is a little late for that. I also don't quite know how I feel about graduating and being done with school after all for the past 20 years that is all I have done. I'm really scared I am going to stop using my brain and regress back into stupidity and then my insanely brilliant husband will be even smarter then me and I just don't know how to handle that. However, seeking a Master's degree and sinking us into $30,000+ of debt so I can be barefoot and pregnant making dinner with a Master's in Public Health degree just does not seam like such a great idea, BUT - we can't have a baby for at least another 3 years so what the hell am I suppose to do in the mean time? Knit? What was my point?



Anyway back to graduating - I don't mean to toot my horn here but I have to admit I am pretty proud of my self for sticking it out and finally finishing. It really has not been easy going to school full time and working 40 hours a week. I am also really proud of the fact that I am graduating with a 3.93 GPA which is nothing short of amazing considering I am not the sharpest tool in the shed (after all I often miss sell my name) and studying has never been a favorite of mine!



I am also somewhat sad that it is all coming to an end I feel like I have to officially grow up now and be an adult and I don't know that I am ready! And as cliche as it sounds I am going to miss my Health Promotion buddies - the 20 of us have taken the same classes for the last two years, seen each other multiple times every week, and been forced to work as groups together, needless to say we are a little to involved in each other's lives and I will really miss that friendship and camaraderie! I will also greatly miss Cassidy, she has been my school "partner" for the last two years, we have done nearly every group project/assignment together, gone to U of U gymnastics meets, and even worked for the same agency! Cass has been a life saver over the past two years and I don't know what I would have done with out her!



In closing I guess I just want to say how grateful I am that I live in a country where as a woman I am allowed to and encouraged to get an education! And that I married a man who has always supported me and pushed to me to achieve my dreams, who stayed up late nights to quiz me on behavior change theories and planning models, and still thinks that I am the most beautiful woman in the world! Lastly I am grateful for my mother, Marsha, who has listened to me countless times as I stressed over school, changed my plan for college and life hundreds of times, and cried because I felt not smart enough to pass! My mom has always been my biggest fan, my greatest support, and the most loving person I know and it is truly an Honor to be her daughter! (I love you mom!) I hope I have made her proud (and that she does not cry tomorrow, because then I will and I don't have water proof mascara)!