Graduation and Acceptance
What a day. At 7PM, I was at my graduation ceremony at CPCC. Although I won’t technically graduate until this summer, since I’m a summer graduate I could attend. I’ve never been to my own graduation ceremony before, so it was finally a tangible taste after all those years of hard work. It was also nice graduating with honors (Mu Alpha Theta, Phi Theta Kappa, 3.7-3.99 GPA), at one point being one of only a couple of students standing to show off their honors (I’m a member of Mu Alpha Theta, a national mathematics honor society, and we are a rare breed apparently). I’ll tell you what though, it’s a pain keeping all of those cords and the stole in place.
The commencement ceremonies were nice, the guest speaker may have been a bit better ( she had occasional fits of verbal diarrhea), and it was a relief to finally see something tangible for all of my hard work. Now that I am past that, I can focus on my final course and be over and done with (oh yea, and getting that CPCC accounting issue resolved).
But the day only got better. After a wonderful after graduation dinner with my daughter – or as she would say, we had a date – we got home and I got her to bed, and I started putting everything up. Then I remembered a conversation from earlier in the day with a lady from UNCC. They had a few questions regarding some of the answers on my application (yes, I was a bit of a hellraiser in highschool, but I wasn’t that bad.. they just needed to know that), then let me know I could go online the next day and check my status. So I checked it.
I GOT ACCEPTED! So now the day ends on an even better note. Starting this fall, I will be somewhere in the area of a Sophomore/Junior at UNCC (depends on how all of the credits transfer over). Another 2-3 more years, plus another 2 if I can do an accelerated master’s program, and I’ll be at the mark I’m aiming for. Wow. Will I ever get a break? Sure, when I die.
Was there a point to this post other than to brag? No, not really. I’m just really… stoked… about the events of today. It’s nice to know that I have written this current chapter in life to be a good one, and I now have direction of where I am going to go for the next chapter. Tomorrow is my day.
