Yesterday afternoon at 2:06 pm I bolted from Myers Hall aka Talbot. All my finals are now complete, I have sixteen weeks of a Master's program under my belt, all projects are done...I'm breathing easier now than I have in weeks. I feel good.
As I walked to parking lot I had an overwhelming sense of joy and giddiness strike me; a relief at being done until fall. What was I so worried about just hours, days, weeks prior? I remembered that school is fun-I like studying. A much different mentality than I was experiencing just an hour before that last final. It must be similar to childbirth: when all the action is over and things are "complete" all the pain and worries are gone. Shoot-looking back over it all I have nothing but fond memories! There goes my selective memory again...
This morning I woke up and thought about walking the campus and felt a quick dart of sadness; I won't be walking those paths or be seeing those campus buildings again until Fall. *sigh* Am I "homesick" already? I'm already anticipating the beginning of Fall '08, greeting old friends and waving to the professors I know... Maybe summer break isn't what it's cracked up to be.
Okay. I just looked over at 992 pages of Dogmatic Theology by the venerable William T. Shedd and edited by Talbot's own Alan Gomes. I won't miss that reading, nor Hermeneutics texts. Instead, I'll be doing some reading for me this summer, and at my own pace and schedule! Hello Summer!
