A little over a year later, here I sit, on my bed in my first apartment. I am a little psyched out at how fast this time has gone. I sat at the class of 2009 graduation ceremony in the target center today. I walked the unbearably hot hallways where the eager soon-to-be graduates were lined up, decked out in navy blue cap and gown. That was me, a year ago. Not to be cliche, but it seems like it was just yesterday that I was standing there planning out the exciting moment of throwing my hat. That was the part I was looking forward to most, even though we weren't "allowed to" throw our hats. We did. I did.
The best part is, I don't even remember that moment. I remember so much else, but I don't remember that, the one moment I was looking forward to for 4 years.
It still psychs me out! Sitting on my bed, in my first apartment, after finishing my first year of being only a college student(i.e. "real college", haha). It's really weird, how you can look forward to something so much, then it passes you by so fast. Or how you can want something so much, and then you get it and it becomes a part of everyday life that you don't even realize.
My cap is sitting dustily in one of my still unpacked boxes (i don't have any shelves to put the stuff on...). My tassel is sitting at the bottom of the lowly cup-holder in my car, after getting pulled over for having it on my mirror. And the memory, the feeling of throwing my cap up in the air, and leaving high school and never looking back...are long gone.
