Graduation Day!

(This is a a time-out from celeb/pop culture posting!)

So, you could probably tell by the pictures I uploaded that this weekend was my Graduation Ceremony 🙂 It was Saturday, June 9th at 8am, to be exact. Which means I got there at 6:45am.

Although I technically graduated in December of 2006, it was good to be part of this– to get my congratulations, to be recognized, to show off my colored lovely little honor cords, and to have my best friends and my family there (Yeah, can you believe how early they had to get up for me? Haha. They’re the best).

I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications (concentration Organizational/Public Relations) AND in the top 3% of my class (Magna Cum Laude)!

It took me a really long time to finish college, for many reasons. The short version is– since I graduated high school I went to 4 different colleges, had 5 different jobs, 5 internships, and 5 different places I called home. I tell everyone I changed my major three times, but really that was just in my head– I was undeclared until I started at CSULA in ’04. When I say a “majored” in English or Creative Writing, that is just my way of saying “took a lot of classes.” Yeah, there was one semester where I “majored” in going to shows. Hah 😉 I graduated with like, 100 more credits than I needed. But I really loved all the extra classes I took! (math anything exempt)

I only say this stuff because some of you have messaged me, and I know you have college on the brain. Or, your parents are breathing down your neck about it but you have no idea what you want to do. That’s okay. Make something up. Then go out and learn at your own pace. Music isn’t designed to immediately get to the end of it, and neither is learning.

What you get out of higher education depends on what you put into it. I think anyone who says “_____ was a waste of a major, I didn’t learn anything” is insulting themselves. If you’re not learning anything, it’s your responsibilty to say so, your responsibility to do something about it– this is not 3rd grade. It’s your life, your brain, your money, your choice. Make it work.

Anyway. There were a lot of monstrous papers, a lot of perplexing assignments, a lot of nerve-wracking presentations, a lot of heavily-weighted tests. But, I did it! (Which doesn’t mean, of course, that I am done learning, haha)

So thank you for all your postive comments and messages 🙂 You know where to find me if you need the same.