It feels so wild and so excited to be… done.
For anyone who hasn’t been around, I’ve now been in school for 7 straight semesters [starting summer 2020, then fall (2020) spring/summer/fall (2021), and then spring/summer (2022)].
I went back to undergrad after years away because of the pandemic. And then I rolled straight into graduate school. And in many ways, that’s been very cool. But grad school especially has felt a little exhausting.
It’s not that grad school was incredibly hard, per se. I think it was actually easier than undergrad.
[Undergrad was out of my usual wheelhouse – engineering/math/all that. Grad school, was stuff I knew well (musical theater)… But it was time consuming.]
And even though I had some weeks off between semesters, it felt like there was always something. Like, in undergrad, I had to complete saxophone proficiencies I had to study for between semesters. And I had to work on thesis projects for my majors and minors. And in grad school, it was all geared toward our final thesis.
So, this is the first time in 7 semesters (a bit over 2 years) that I get a real and true complete break. No homework. No projects. No nothing.
And while i don’t like to have nothing to do for too long, there is something that’s always so nice about a liiiiittle bit of time to decompress after a big project. And it’s been really nice to just… watch TV. I’m gonna catch up on a lot I’ve missed, and I dunno. It just feels so good in this moment to relax and do whatever I want… including nothing for a second.