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| Well, this is my last post as Sherwoodmeetsjulia, the blog that has served me well over the course of my college years. My first entry was from September 7, 2003, and it mostly talked about how relieved I was that Quest, our orientation program, was over, and how I felt strange that I was glad to be out of the house, not missing the family terribly.
Since then, it's been quite a ride. I've learned so much, seen so many people come and go from my life, and developed (and constantly falter in continuing to develop) a genuine faith in Christ. Somehow, though, I haven't come out on the other side with any more certainty. Sure, I have general paths I know I want to pursue and plenty of options, but I don't know what will happen at all. "Nowhere man, the world is at your command."
Now, a look to the future. I'm heading to China in a few months with a few other people, including the girl that I love. I have no job, no TESL certificate, no permanent residence lined up yet, but I will go there nonetheless. After that, I'm hoping to go to graduate school. For what? Well, here are my ideas:
-MFA in poetry
-Postmodern fiction
-Image & Text (i.e. graphic novels and the like)
-William Blake
-non-dualism in poetry
-Chinese literature and translation
I guess that's a fairly long list, but honestly I don't really want to specialize. I enjoy the liberal arts education and learning new things all the time. Getting stuck in a small area within a certain field seems like a nightmare to me.
So that's all for this blog. I'm going to continue an online journal at www.xanga.com/tom_mazanec. Go there if you still want to track my life. But this is my college journal, and I'm graduated, so it's over. It's been nice. May all of you fare well in whatever you do.
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| So I graduated from college yesterday. It was strange to think back on the last four years and to see this all as a the grand summation of it, but everything's cool. It seemed much less anti-climactic than high school. I suppose that's because high school is a graduation from 13+ years of school while college is a graduation from 4 years of school.
I'm typing this all on my new computer, a small, portable laptop that my family gave me as a graduation present and which I'll be able to carry all around China with me. It's kind of funny that they'd give me a graduation present considering they paid for my school anyway.
That's all for now. This is probably the second-to-last entry from this blog (though I may just switch names and stay on Xanga). I'll end this blog with a more reflective post, though.
But for now, Zaijian.
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| I finished writing the last essay of my undergraduate career today. I spent nearly all day on it, but I am finished. I only need to hand it in tomorrow morning, grab my diploma on Saturday, and I will officially have my B.A. in English (with honors) and Asian Studies.
Concerning my academic life at Calvin College, I must quote Christopher Smart's "A Song to David":
Determined, dared, and DONE.
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| I'm midway through my exams. I have 2 take-homes and 1 in-class to go. That will all be done Wednesday, and then Saturday is graduation. By this time next week, I will be done with college - a degree-holding adult.
The week has gone well. I've been busy. Classes are over, and I took orders for my graphic poetry project / senior thesis at the Spring Arts Festival. People requested 45 copies total, and so it'll be quite a task to pull all that off. Also, I'm selling them at a loss (as well as giving some copies away to people who helped work on it), so there goes a good chunk of money. Oh well, that's the price for getting college students to buy your art.
If anyone out there in the land of the internet wants a copy, it's $5 (+ S&H if you don't live in the Grand Rapids area). Email me (thomas.j.mazanec[at symbol]gmail[dot symbol]com) or leave a comment if you're interested.
The fact that I'm graduating has barely even sunk in yet. To me, I still have so much I have to do before than that it doesn't even seem real. High school graduation seemed real, and a long time coming. College, however, does not. Maybe it will by next week.
Also, I've determined I'm going to terminate this blog after graduation. I began it at the beginning of my freshman year, and it seems fitting that it should remain a record of my college years and not expand into something greater. Maybe I'll start another one, or maybe I'll just update Facebook more. Or maybe I'll just get a personal website.
Well, that is all for now. Back to work for me.
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| Last night, I got very little sleep. Currently, I'm writing a paper on how Mahayana Buddhist philosophy can help one understand William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The new spoof is really cool. I'm also running around to try to finalize some things with my thesis. I have two more days of class left, and two papers and two presentations to do before then. After that, I have a Spring Arts Festial and two in-class finals and two take-home finals.
I feel like I'm going to collapse sometimes, but I think everything will come out all right. I want to have time to wonder what I'm going to do with my life, look for jobs, look for grad school, check out GRE information, etc., but I just don't have time.
My hasting days flie on with full career.
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