I’ve Graduated!
Well it’s official, I’ve graduated with my Bachelor’s degree and now I’m digging deep into the job hunt, and already I have a pretty hot job lead. But first, what an incredible weekend. What a great showing of support that so many family members showed by going out of their way and putting their schedules aside to come celebrate with me. It was truly a great feeling to know how much people cared. I especially didn’t expect my sister to make it because they are just in the process of getting moved in to their new home in Kansas after moving from Alabama, and they made it up here even on really short notice. I had been having one of the most stressful weeks of my life, and when I heard the day before graduation that she was coming it just turned everything right around! It was so cool having her here. Of course my parents and grandparents, and even Lizzie’s grandparents celebrated with us, which says a lot of things about how her family feels about me which is really great.
My brother Jeremy and best friend Randy also made it from Fargo, they stayed until Sunday so we had a really fun night Saturday night bowling and having a few drinks. They wanted to try White Castle really bad too since they don’t have one in Fargo, so they tried it but I didn’t, because the last time I tried White Castle it was disgusting and I got sick to my stomach.
The end of the week right before the portfolio shows was really stressful. Wednesday night my Lexmark printer crashed big time, and it’s completely broken now and unfixable. No warranty so it’s just going in the garbage. What perfect timing! So instead of printing some final projects at home I ended up printing them at school at the last minute, which was really nerve wracking. I ordered a new printer from Apple because they didn’t have any in at the Apple Store, so I ordered it online and it came in the mail today. I got an HP All-In-One printer and it’s like 200 times nicer than the Lexmark I had. I was printing with it today and it’s just awesome! I don’t think I’ll ever get a Lexmark again.
I also had a bit of a scare with my computer on Thursday. I had my iBook set up presenting my interactive CD-Rom at the portfolio show, and for some reason my battery charger wasn’t working. I brought the charger to the Apple store, the expert plugged it in and it worked fine, so we figured it was something wrong with the computer which meant I was screwed. So I rushed home, got the computer itself, brought it down to the Apple Store, and it worked fine even with my original charger. I felt like such a dork. Then we looked at the cord on my old charger and it was breaking and getting a bad connection, so that’s why it wasn’t working. So I was releived that it was an easily fixable problem. Warranty covered it, if I wouldn’t have paid for the extended warranty the new charger would have costed me $164! I’ll never say a warranty isn’t worth it.
Anyway, the portfolio show was quiet, talked to only a couple of employers and they were impressed with my work which is a good sign. I do have a big interview tomorrow morning for a 90-day contract job that will pay really well if I do it. I’ll have to work down in southern Minnesota about 2 hours from home, so that’s kind of a bad part but we really need the money. I’m hoping that will work out so I can get started working full time as early as the end of this week.
I’ll give you more details later, I’m still looking into other positions and hopefully I’ll have something by next week. I’m excited to get working!
Talk to you again soon!