Welcome to the pond

Well I'm back, I think. I'm moved back home for a while. It feels good to be back, that's for sure.

Yesterday was graduation day!!! It rocked!! The ceremony for my major was at 10 AM-11:30 AM. It felt great to be there among my fellow journalism students. It really felt like being part of a family. I have to admit it was very weird going up on that stage to get my diploma cover and graduate. It's like you walk off the stage a new person. Now, I don't officially graduate until I complete one last course for a couple needed credits. But I'm symbolically a Bachelor of Arts, so that's awesome. I attended the main graduation ceremony too, in the basketball arena. I was one of only EIGHT people from my department to attend that. It was a lot more formal than the department graduation, but it felt very important. It's like you're being inducted into a select society - that of the college graduate. I'm distinctive now. I can put a "B.A. Univ. of Oregon" after my name. It's awesome being a college grad - but now the hard part: joining the Real World!!