Klonor
18-12-2008, 19:57
Though graduation is still two days away (Saturday, December 20), at this moment I am completely and totally done with all college work, study, and activities. I've taken all my finals, handed in all my papers, and delivered all my bribes (Don't worry, the silver coins all had chocolate in them, you don't need to worry that I'm actually trying to buy my way through school). I'm still waiting for my two last grades to be finalized, but provided I don't fail those classes, I have completed everything necessary for graduation, and I am actually finished with college.
Whoa.
This is a very big and important moment in anybody's life, the end of so much and the beginning of so much more, and I felt that this occasion deserved something special, something momentous, something to truly symbolize the end of an era and the start of a new one ('Cause we all know how I'm just so awesome that the parts of my life are divided into 'eras'). So, at this moment, I am sitting in a computer lab on campus, typing in the same room where, five and a half years ago, I first signed on to the NationStates system.
Of course, back then I wasn't really even a student here. I was still in High School, spending a summer living in the dorms and taking classes as part of an education program to give people a taste of the college life to come, but I still remember that time, and I remember when one of the other kids in the program (Sadly, his name escapes me for the moment, but if you happen to be him, and you're still playing NS, and you read this, send me a TG and let me know) told me about this great game he played that he thought I'd enjoy. I signed on, created an account (The Grand Duchy of Klonor), and I've been stuck here ever since. Time has passed, I finished that program, graduated High School, enrolled here as an actual student, and have now completed my college career, but NationStates has endured throughout, and I though it appropriate that, on what will probably be my very last time on campus (Excepting when I do that amazing walk in a few days), I sign on and bid farewell to this part of my life properly. So, I got out my campus map, found the dorm I stayed in so long ago, and trekked half a mile so that I could sit here and type this sentimental post (Well, I didn't actually trek, since I've got a scooter which I use to go everywhere that makes the distance just fly by, but you can appreciate the sentiment).
So, before I sign off my student user account for the last time and move on to that scary and unknown place called the "real world," where I get a job and pay rent and (Shock! Gasp!) get a date, I'd just like to take a moment to remember the path that I took to get here, and reflect on the joy it was to come full circle, and write my last college-NS post in the same lab where I first signed on.
So, until next time (Which is actually probably only going to be in a few hours, since I've got my own computer and I've got no plans to actually stop playing NS), I leave you with the call of my people, and a fond farewell:
We are....Penn State!
http://www.achahockey.org/news_images/org_134/Image/Team%20Logos/psu2.gif
Klonor: Pennsylvania State University; Graduating Class of 2008; College of the Liberal Arts; Degree in History
Whoa.
This is a very big and important moment in anybody's life, the end of so much and the beginning of so much more, and I felt that this occasion deserved something special, something momentous, something to truly symbolize the end of an era and the start of a new one ('Cause we all know how I'm just so awesome that the parts of my life are divided into 'eras'). So, at this moment, I am sitting in a computer lab on campus, typing in the same room where, five and a half years ago, I first signed on to the NationStates system.
Of course, back then I wasn't really even a student here. I was still in High School, spending a summer living in the dorms and taking classes as part of an education program to give people a taste of the college life to come, but I still remember that time, and I remember when one of the other kids in the program (Sadly, his name escapes me for the moment, but if you happen to be him, and you're still playing NS, and you read this, send me a TG and let me know) told me about this great game he played that he thought I'd enjoy. I signed on, created an account (The Grand Duchy of Klonor), and I've been stuck here ever since. Time has passed, I finished that program, graduated High School, enrolled here as an actual student, and have now completed my college career, but NationStates has endured throughout, and I though it appropriate that, on what will probably be my very last time on campus (Excepting when I do that amazing walk in a few days), I sign on and bid farewell to this part of my life properly. So, I got out my campus map, found the dorm I stayed in so long ago, and trekked half a mile so that I could sit here and type this sentimental post (Well, I didn't actually trek, since I've got a scooter which I use to go everywhere that makes the distance just fly by, but you can appreciate the sentiment).
So, before I sign off my student user account for the last time and move on to that scary and unknown place called the "real world," where I get a job and pay rent and (Shock! Gasp!) get a date, I'd just like to take a moment to remember the path that I took to get here, and reflect on the joy it was to come full circle, and write my last college-NS post in the same lab where I first signed on.
So, until next time (Which is actually probably only going to be in a few hours, since I've got my own computer and I've got no plans to actually stop playing NS), I leave you with the call of my people, and a fond farewell:
We are....Penn State!
http://www.achahockey.org/news_images/org_134/Image/Team%20Logos/psu2.gif
Klonor: Pennsylvania State University; Graduating Class of 2008; College of the Liberal Arts; Degree in History