I'm at the beginning of the end of my last semester of college, with this first day holding two finals. Luckily, neither one is a cumulative test - one is only a test over what we've learned since our last exam, and the other is turning in a project that we've been working on since about halfway through the semester. I ended up spending a good part of the weekend completely re-designing my project because I wasn't happy with the way it was working out and the rest of the weekend studying so there was really no kind of break, but that's okay because it was worth it to get all of this finished.
I also celebrated by buying myself a present! I know, it's a little premature to celebrate passing all of my classes before they're finished but I figure that I've worked hard and deserve a little bit of a reward, so this is what I splurged on just a few moments ago!
Isn't it pretty? It's a keyboard cover for my Mac Book Pro (which Kate lovingly named Starbuck the first day I brought her home) that has all of the shortcut keys for Final Cut Pro nicely colored and placed on it. And while I'm incredibly familiar with the shortcuts and everything that goes along with my beloved program, I think the cover looks kind of awesome and I'd like to have it to use because it will probably teach me a lot of new things that I didn't even know I could do just by looking down at the keyboard! So I went ahead and ordered that today and I'm kind of hoping it will come before my editing class on Thursday so I can take it in and look a little awesome. I know, right? Completely insane and ridiculous, but why not? I get joy and happiness out of the geekier things in life, and I think most of my classmates will, too.
I don't think I'll really miss college once I'm finished with it. I'm ready to be out and doing something else that isn't involved in classwork. It'll feel good. But for now I think we're getting ready to critique our projects so this is a good place to close this!