Holy Crap! First Year Down (three to go)

last day of school for my freshman year!!!  Wow, that actually is a kinda cool thing, ain’t it.   I don’t really think that the totality of that statement really hit me until I saw me writing that just a moment ago…wow… I’m a Junior in college!  In a few months… Wow.

So I thought a couple of days ago about the coolest thing about this whole thing… Just one year ago, before I quit my job, I received an employee review.  “Average” was the outcome, straight up average.  I received “3”s on everything on a scale of 1-5, except one that was over, and one that was under (the standard corporate trick).  One year ago, I was an average, midgrade corporate employee.  Today, I am a straight-A student (well, maybe one B…all came down to the final).  Neat, eh?

I just had a short conversation last night with this chick in my bagua class…she’s part of the reason that I’m actually where I’m at; one of the…three(?)  that said I needed to stop screwing around wondering, and put my heart into what I was really meant to do.  Anyway, right now she is where I was a year ago, and she hates to realize it.

Since I quit my job and decided to enroll back in school full time, the most obvious sign that I’m “in the flow” or whatever, has been Money.  I had been a good saver, and had enough saved up for my first semester by the time I had quit my job.  After the first semester, that money started to run out, but right about then?  Contract work just happened upon my lap; enough for ¾ semester.  

After that three quarters of semester, I needed money again!  Go to do my taxes, and realize that there’s a tax bonus for all first and second year students; just enough to get me through the rest of the semester and some.

Semester’s over, and I need a summer job that will let me save enough for the next year of school and darned if I don’t just happen to get a call for somebody that, oddly enough, needs somebody with my qualifications that can handle an 8-10 week job at decent pay.  Well that's just about how long my summer's gong to be; interesting, that!

So I’m telling this girl last night at class: When you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing, everything Just Works Out.  She growled back at me.

Anyway, so here I am: first year down, outstanding marks so far.  Oh, and did I mention just how much I’m totally loving it?  School freaking Rocks, and I am having so much fun there, meeting the most amazing people.  It’s struck me a few times already that there’s just this entirely different energy when hanging out with students (learners), especially when contrasted with the standard corporate environment.  Almost daily, I am surrounded by people who dedicate a majority of their time to education, to learning!  How freaking cool is that?  And everywhere that I listen, there’r these conversations going on, about life, dreams…gossip mostly, sure, but still per conversation-capita, the focus is noticably different than where I was just one tiny year before.  

Not to mention a couple of the most amazing professor-people I have ever had the honor of knowing. And learning that language/writing/english classes have the friendliest people so far…

So, I thought I would write something aboot’it.  Zaadz had just as much a part of this entire thing as anything else, so I guess I do owe a thanks to everyone here, everyone that helped me find the way to where I’m now at, and…Well, and I guess that’s all I had to say.