It seems odd that gradation scares you so much. I mean, I worked my butt off for four years to get to this point. I spent summers and holidays working on class projects and Club events just so I could stand on that stage one day holding a picture of Robert Frost Hall and feel some sort of accomplishment. Feel that I had done something. But now all I want to do is stay for another year or even apply for Graduate School here.

Its not like I don’t have anything to do after graduation, I have a job for the summer and I have been accepted to Grad School in Buffalo NY, but I just feel like I have not finished everything I needed to here. But, we all need to move on and I am trying to focus my attention on that, trying to keep my mind off my imminent graduation!

Posted by Daniel Smith at 12:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

While most college students take part in trips to fantasy locations and stereotypical beach clad paradises I spent all week at SNHU, as I have for the last two years. Why you ask, well I tell everyone it is because I have a ton of work to do, or that I was offered extra hours at work, but in reality it is because I legitimately cannot afford not to stay here and work. I, like a vast majority of students have a job. However, I have three jobs and no one of those jobs pays more than 8.25 an hour, which means that while I work around 20 hours a week for them and seem to spend more that enough time at work, I never make more that $100 a week. That money is then divided up between gas, food, and other living expenses. That leaves me with 25 bucks in my savings account, which builds up until the beginning of each semester at which point my books quickly take care of that! That is why I stay on campus during breaks and Holidays.

That is not to say that I don’t enjoy myself and have a “fun” spring break, because even though I do not leave NH or get wasted and make stupid choices with random people in an exotic place, it is still a break. I get a chance to be away from teachers, residents, and club members for a week and allow my self to NOT think about how Radio SNHU is about to go over budget. It is a time when I can relax and re-arrange the apartment without people stopping and asking why.

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