Woohoo!!! This is the official end of my lecture and seminar and tutorial experience here at Queens! I have just 2 assignments to finish off, and 3 exams, and then I can officially stop describing myself primarily as a university student.
How do I feel?
Being a student is great in so many ways. It gives you an excuse to sit around a lot and bounce abstract ideas back and forth off of each other while everyone ignores the white elephant in the room, which is growing OSAP debt. You read things you wouldn't ordinarily read, and you spend a lot of time thinking about very. specific. ideas. that most people don't. When people ask you what you do, and you say
"I go to Queens" and they say "Ohhh..." in an impressed tone, it makes you feel good about yourself. You feel smarter just by being here.
But at the same time, you spend about FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS / YEAR to feel this way. That gets hard to ignore after awhile.
Also, this semester in particular, I have felt increasingly disconnected from my fellow students. We just don't have the same life-altering events looming in the upcomming summer, and my mind is somewhere far far away from keggers and ghetto life. (Student ghetto - very different from most other ghettos. There's a proliferation of garbage, sure, but here no one is going to jump you for your wallet.)
In short, I haven't felt like a student. My motivation has dwindled away to nothing, and most of the assignment I have handed in lately have been rushed and last minute. (And guess what: I got better marks on those than the ones I slaved over. Go figure.)
I just wanted it to be over, and now it is! Hoooray! Taz and I might celebrate tomorrow with a lovely Easter dinner. Chocolate everything, anyone?
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