Graduation was a crazy experience. I hooted and hollered for my best friends, and they did the same for me. I was having pictures taken of me left and right. This is about the only time I'll feel like a celebrity. I managed to hold back tears until a line in my alma mater. There were over 600 people in my graduating class, and I think I was one of maybe 30 that can sing the alma mater. Anyway, the line is Wherever we go throughout the land our loyalty we sing. It was the wherever we go part that got me. In that moment I realized that I would actually have to leave BW.
But thankfully I was able to hold those tears back, pack my stuff up, say goodbye to my best friends and trek it back to Illinois. Of course I got sick on the ride back, and have just now gotten over it.
Today the shock has kinda worn off me. That Monday was spent traveling. My family stopped in BG to check out the campus and see my office. There were a few friends and colleagues there to say hello to. It made the upcoming year seem more real to me. After that I was sick so the driving back mainly consisted of me sleeping in my car (apologies to my mom and sister who had to drive whilst I slept). Then Tuesday was my mope day. My dad always calls the day before he has to go to work his "mope day" where he, as you could probably guess, mopes. I did that all of Tuesday. I sat around my room doing absolutely nothing. Wednesday was my "let's make my room presentable" day. I was moving stuff around because I'll be here until the end of July. I also applied to some places for summer jobs.
Today was different. Today was a day that I was feeling well and my room was pretty well put together. I didn't have anything planned, but I didn't want to waste the day. I mailed a letter and went to the bank, both very adult things to do. It was weird because I didn't feel like a college graduate, even though I was wearing my Baldwin Wallace Alumni quarter zip. I just felt in the middle, like this summer is another transition summer. This summer is another transition summer, but I don't think it has quite kicked in that at the end of the summer I'll be going back to BW.
This summer is going to be a weird one for sure.
