Wait, when did I become an adult?

[ladymercury_10]

I just turned in my last final.  I guess this means I've passed college?  Graduation is on Saturday...it feels really surreal.  In some sense, nothing's really changing--I'll still be doing coursework in the fall, since I'm going to grad school.  In another sense, it's going to be very different.  While I'll still be a student, I'll be doing math all the time.  I may never have to write another paper again.  I've gotten so used to being an English major, and it's going to be strange not to have assigned reading and writing.

I can't believe it's been four years already.  I think in some ways I never expected college to end.  Of course I knew I would graduate, but it was always such a distant thing that I only really considered it in the abstract.  I've changed a lot since I got here.  If you had told me on the first day of freshman year that I would go to grad school for math, I would have laughed in your face.

I really love it here.  I'm so proud of my school, of how good-hearted and passionate and smart and unconcernedly dorky all my classmates and professors have been.  I'm going to miss it a lot.  And ityellsback, you've been a splendid roommate, and I will miss talking about fandom and bugs and feminism when we should have been sleeping.

Comments

[heureviolet.livejournal.com]

Aw, congratulations on finishing up your last final and graduating! That is a huge step. How did you end up going into grad school for math as an English major of all things? XD

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

I meant to double major, but I started math a bit late and so didn't have time. I decided I wanted to keep going even though I didn't quite finish the major, so I'm supposed to start a master's program this fall. I'm very excited. :D

[heureviolet.livejournal.com]

That is really neat! I love English majors who defy the English-majors-can't-do-math stereotype, which is so unfair and so prevalent :(

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks! Somewhat entertainingly, there is a related stereotype that math students can't do math. The trouble with higher math is that it robs you of the ability to, say, add and subtract. I always have a moment of panic when I have to calculate a tip, because I'm used to setting up problems and making the computer carry them out.

[heureviolet.livejournal.com]

Dude, that is what calculator apps on cellphones are for, obviously~! ;)

[welshgirl15.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only Maths student who can't do Maths :P
My friends always expect me to be able work out how to split the bill off the top of my head, and I always have a panic!

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Haha, arithmetic is so hard, right? :P