Petitioning Study Abroad Courses

I finally completed my study abroad petition forms today after three weeks of being home. I'm slowly making progress on my list of things to do. I waited a while to finish the forms because the petition requires that my grades be posted on my transcript, but I have yet to receive them. So I figure, why should I be in rush if I'm still missing some of the necessary information. Anyway, I'll turn the petitions in on Monday and then I'll wait and see what happens. I'm hoping everything will be approved. I don't want to go back to school during the summer or in the fall and pay even more money. Although, I'm pretty sure everything will work out. I'll keep my fingers crossed though.

I also got new memory cards for my big camera. I still need to re-recover my London pictures from my old memory card, but I haven't had the time to do it again because it takes forever to go through the recovery process. I needed new memory cards though. I've lost so many photos due to corrupted files. Now I can shoot with my SLR again. Yay.

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Tomorrow will be my graduation. I have been asked if I'm excited and I would say not really. I have two reasons as to why I don't feel the excitement. One, my study abroad experience has made to not care very much. While abroad I didn't work as hard as I would have if I were back at my home university. I don't want to discount, however, the work I did abroad. It's just, the French system of education is different from the American and so I feel like I didn't work as hard as I should have. In addition to that, I've been home for three weeks doing nothing while UCI students were still hard at work for two weeks and then one week of finals.

The second reason I'm not too excited about graduation is that my schooling has now ended. I have to go out into the real world and find a real job. I'm not ready yet. What have I learned? What can I show to say that I deserve a degree? Do I have any skills that will help me land a decent job? Can I apply what I have learned with my major into a career?

These questions I shall try to tackle in tomorrow's entry. For now, I shall mentally prepare myself for graduation tomorrow. At this moment, I feel some excitement mixed with a bit of anxiousness. Why anxious? I guess because I am afraid of the unknown future. What am I going to do with myself?