This is where I'm suppose to jump up and down
Even though my class doesn't end until next Tuesday, I'm unofficially finished with my MBA program. It ended at lunch today with the uneventful, unrecognized, unceremonial pressing of "submit" to send my rather large, boring strategy project and accompanying slide presentation to my professor. I would say had I been told at the beginning of this course six weeks ago that I'd be doing 75% of the project in Harrisburg while my father-in-law was busy dying, I would have said you're full of shit. But that's what happened and I was still able to do it. It has less to do with me and more to do with having enough people around me and encouraging me to take a few hours each day and just get through it. I'm exhausted and emotionally wrung out, but I'm done. AND, it's not half-assed, which was my fall-back excuse if things didn't work out.
I will say that for all the work and bitching and complaining and crying, for all the hype of sending out this last project and finishing the program, I'm very low-key and ambivalent about it right now. I'm just not one who responds well to the spotlight, preferring to just move into the next, better thing. My graduate degree is significant to me, but I'm not one for jumping up and down, no matter what I say sometimes. In lieu of celebratory calisthenics, I did run sorta crazy over at Amazon and bought a shit load of things I've been eyeing for some time:
Hell: A Novel
Urgent 2nd Class : Creating Curious Collage, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera
Doctors and Nurses : A Novel
The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have
Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love
Star Wars: Empire at War [CD]
I Am Not Myself These Days : A Memoir (P.S.)
The Thin Place : A Novel
Case Histories : A Novel
The Secret Supper
The Cell
Dead Beat
The Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook : Everything You Need to Know About Setting Up and Cooking in the Most Ridiculously Small Kitchen in the World
And now I have nothing to do but lay around on the porch and enjoy my free time. I’m totally in love with not being in school, already.
Well, congratulations are seriously in order upon the completion of such a momentous undertaking! I am so proud of you, the goal you set and your determination to get there. You have persevered through some truly tough times, as if working full time at a demanding job and going to school are not hard enough!
You deserve to be good to yourself, indulge a little, and rest on your laurels, assuming they aren't getting too wide at the back.
We all have admired you and cheered you from Ohio and now we share in your joy at completion, well done!
Congratulations!! I know you've been working at this forever and ever... I completely expect more instant messages.
YEAH!! Congratulations!