[NON BLOG] Academia's Conclusion
Sep. 18th, 2004 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldLast night when I got in, I was met by a sealed envelope mailed from Queen's University, more specifically from the School of Graduate Studies and Research.
I didn't open it then. For starters, I was tired. For another thing, I tend not to like mail as a rule. More saliently, I've been on tenterhooks about getting my degree as a result of the many extensions, negotiated with professors and the grad studies program's head, for my final essays. I was told that, yes, the paperwork has been completed and everything was fine. But. Still.
I left the envelope to open this morning. On waking at 8 o'clock, I reached for my glasses. Of course, I couldn't find them for another fifteen minutes, blind as I am without my own lenses-and-frames gadget. I checked my Yahoo!Mail account on my cellphone for a minute. Then, I lay back down on my sleeping bag and opened the letter.
I got my MA.
As I was relaxing, reclined, I realized: I made it.
Sleeping in until 1 o'clock didn't seem like such an excessively luxurious idea after that.
I didn't open it then. For starters, I was tired. For another thing, I tend not to like mail as a rule. More saliently, I've been on tenterhooks about getting my degree as a result of the many extensions, negotiated with professors and the grad studies program's head, for my final essays. I was told that, yes, the paperwork has been completed and everything was fine. But. Still.
I left the envelope to open this morning. On waking at 8 o'clock, I reached for my glasses. Of course, I couldn't find them for another fifteen minutes, blind as I am without my own lenses-and-frames gadget. I checked my Yahoo!Mail account on my cellphone for a minute. Then, I lay back down on my sleeping bag and opened the letter.
I got my MA.
As I was relaxing, reclined, I realized: I made it.
Sleeping in until 1 o'clock didn't seem like such an excessively luxurious idea after that.
