One week ago today, May 7th, I was able to cross something off of my list of things to do. For you see, on this special Friday, I was able to graduate from the University of Utah.
This is something that has been in the works for awhile. Growing up I was always told to go to college and to get a degree. It was something that my mom would always tell me. She always wanted us to succeed in this world and has always felt that getting a good education was one thing that needed to be done. While she was telling us to get a degree she was also telling us all about the University of Utah and how great it was. So you see, ever since I was a little girl I always knew that one day I would go the school that made you bleed red. I knew that I would go to the University of Utah.
Therefore, when the day came that I was getting close to graduating high school I knew that I need to apply to go to college. I took the ACT test, only once, and then prepared my application. I will have you know that the only school that I applied to was the University o Utah. I did not feel the need to apply anywhere else since I knew that that was where I would go. And lone behold, I got accepted for the fall 2005 semester. That acceptance letter was what started my education at the University of Utah.
And now, five years later, I can say that it is complete. After all of the years of random classes for credits, 15 minute sprints across campus, riding the shuttle bus and praying that I would live to get off it, home football games in the MUSS, free food at the institute, sorority days and nights, working in an office for a science program, sweet talking faculty members to make sure I would pass, some random trips to the library just to say that I went there, getting lost in the tunnels that connect the buildings, fighting for parking spaces, and most of all just going to class and praying that I would pass the final, I have finally graduated.
What made my graduation day so much fun though, was the fact that I was not the only one who was graduating. It just turned out that on this special Friday my sister Wendi and her husband Ben where also graduating from the U. Each of us would finally have our degrees. Since all of us were graduating we all decided that we would make a day of it and go to each ceremony. The first ceremony that we went to was Wendi's on Thursday night. It was fun to see her walk across the stage and receive her diploma, well only the cover, from the College of Health.
After the ceremony went all went to dinner with our family to celebrate. then on Friday morning we all went to the huge University wide commencement ceremony. John Huntsman spoke and overall it was really good. From there went to lunch with the grandparents and then decided to kill some time taking pictures until the next ceremony. We had a lot of fun running around campus taking random photos of us all. The next ceremony happened to be mine.
My ceremony was being held at Kingsbury hall. For those of you who know, this building is not the biggest. I told my family that they would have to fight to get a seat and they did. But they all made and I got to walk across the stage to receive y own diploma cover from the College of Education. All in all, I was just really glad that I didn't trip and fall on my face. After my ceremony when run back up the hill to go Ben's. He graduated from the college of Engineering. I have to say that his ceremony was the longest one. They had so many students that were graduating form that college.
Overall, it was a fabulous day. One filled with family, friends, and lots of excitement and entertainment. One that still has not really sunk in yet. So,now I have this lovely piece of paper that says that I completed my B.S. degree. A piece of paper that says I learned and accomplished something. A piece of paper that says I am now capable of doing something... You know, I just might have to go back and get another one.
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