School’s Out Forever
I was taking my Psychology final yesterday and when I was done I got up and left without picking up my portfolio from next to the table. I made it all the way home and when I was getting out of my car, I looked next to me and realized that I didn’t have my portfolio. I nearly had a heart attack. I drove like a maniac back down to the school, thinking to myself that someone probably stole it (I paid $450 for my portfolio, it’s not exactly something someone wouldn’t notice lying around unattended). What I was worried more about was all the work that I have in it. Sure, I’d be able to reprint it all because I have everything saved and backed up multiple times, but that all together would cost a few hundred dollars to have reprinted. I don’t know where I would have come up with that in one week. The good news is that it was still there when I got there 30 minutes later. Talk about almost losing it, that was a nightmare.
Today was my last day of classes. Three years ago I came here to Minneapolis nervous about starting a new thing, now here I am even more nervous about starting another new thing. I took my last test of college today, sat through my last lecture, participated in my last college critique. I got about three hours of sleep last night, today was a day jam packed with finals and plus I had a big Psychology paper due. All I have left to do is find out my grades which will be submitted tomorrow, and then I have my portfolio shows and graduation at the end of next week. I want to be sure to get as much job searching out of the way in the early part of this upcoming week so that I can have as much of a relaxing weekend of celebration possible. Invited the immediate family and a couple friends, other than that it won’t be anything major.
I haven’t gotten any solid job leads yet even though I’ve sent out quite a few resumes, I have a feeling this is going to take a few weeks. I’m sure it will be worth the wait. I want to be sure I get the job that I want. I’m too scared of the big ad agencies at this point, don’t know if I want that kind of pressure when I’m just starting out, but ultimately that is my dream job. Maybe someday.
My portfolio is basically complete. It’s about as far along as I’m going to get it. I don’t think I’ll ever be completely happy with it, but I think the memory it will provide me of these last three years and the job it will hopefully bring me will be a long lasting memory.
I’ve been getting very sentimental, it just feels really weird to be done with college. I actually parked in front of my old dorm where I lived my first year here and walked to the school from there just like old times. It wasn’t the same because the same friends aren’t around anymore. My old roommate Tom has graduated already because he got the Associate’s degree, my old friend Rich went back to Iowa to go to a different school. The three of us kind of parted ways around the time when I was moving out of student housing, and it all happened so quickly that none of us got eachother’s contact information. I don’t even have an email address for either of them. The worst part is that I don’t know their last names, so I won’t be able to look them up anytime soon. Hopefully they’ll look me up someday.
Well, if you can’t tell, I’m excited, a little bit sad, and extremely nervous and stressed out all at the same time. I’ll talk to you all again soon, and I look forward to seeing some of you next weekend.