The One Where We Graduate...

You know, since I have started college I have had my fair share of majors. Freshman year, I walked on campus as a Social Work major. Ha, that lasted about a year. I didn't even take any classes related to the field. Not one. But hey, I did get a great scholarship for it.  I then treaded the water of a General Education major. You know, the "cop-out" choice for those people who have no interests whatsoever. Then I got the bright idea that I was destined to be a teacher. And I stuck with it. For three long years. I stuck with my passion of English and focused on Heath Ed as my minor. [Sometimes I wonder...Health Ed? I have absolutely no interest in it. Silly past me.]

Then one day after teaching a short English lesson to a bunch of high school kids who really cared less about what I had to say, I had an epiphany. An epiphany that started with "What the heck" and ended with "am I doing?" I realized I had no interest in spending the rest of my life in school. So, I quit. Six credits to go and I gave up on Education. Phew. Dodged a bullet with that one.

But then I realized I had been in school for four and a half years and didn't have a major. Yikes. So, I counted up the credits I had acquired while in school and decided Literary English was the way to go. 

And now I am done. 

What to know what my favorite part of being done is? When people ask what I graduated with. Oh man, talk about a crack up.  "So Kate, what did you spend the last five years in school getting a degree in?" My answer, "I now have a bachelors degree of Literary English in my back pocket!" Them, "Literary English? What the heck are you going to do with that?" My answer, "Who the heck cares! I am a college graduate!"

Truth is guys, I can't do a whole lot with my silly degree. But hey, it's a degree. That is a whole lot more than a lot of people these days can say. So yah, I am proud of my Literary English degree. I am even prouder to shout from the rooftops: 

I AM A COLLEGE GRAD!

To make the day even better, my big brother Alan and I graduated on the same day.