Senior Year

So it begins. Senior year. I'm mostly excited, although I admit things are going kind of slowly, which I'm not really used to. Not as far as school goes, anyway. But I should enjoy it while I can because I'm sure soon enough I'll barely be able to keep my head above water. Not that that's a bad thing. I enjoy that sort of challenge. So here's the class break down:

1. J122 Magazine Capstone. This is it. My last journalism class at Drake. And probably ever. Kind of boggles my mind, really. Each magazine class does their capstone project, which is an issue of 515 magazine. They do everything from start to finish. Content, design, advertising, web presence, editing... you name it. We recently had to interview for staff positions and I should hear about which position I've been offered tomorrow. The class is taught by Lori Blachford who is all kinds of amazing. I'd take anything if she taught it. She's knowledgeable and funny and generally just a great person to have in class.

2. Personal Finance. Eh. It's not as bad as it could be so far, which is good. And it's all important info to have. Budgeting and financial goals and all this business. Although, it may be presumptuous of me to assume I'll have an income to manage after graduation. Lol. But it's ok. And the professor's name is Daffodil, so what could go wrong?

3. Creative Non-fiction. I seem to be in that class with largely non-English major underclassmen. In fact, most of them seem to be pre-pharm. So that's different. Not bad, though. I enjoy creative writing and the stuff we've had to read so far is really engaging. Actually, probably some of the best I've read in college.

4. American Lit. It's an upper-level so this class has a lot of English majors and honor students and whatnot. The stuff we have to read is also fairly easy to move through, comparatively speaking. And I've had this professor before last semester and my first semester as a freshman for my FYS class. So we go way back. He's brilliant and funny, though I'm not sure he always means to be.

5. Entomology. A non-required science class. Amazing, right? Entomology is the study of insects and even though I'm the only non-science major in the class (lots of environmental science, pharm and pre-pharm, biology and chemistry), I seem to be keeping up fairly well. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Weber, my seventh grade science teacher, for teaching me what a phylum is. We get to go collect bugs and then identify them and all sorts of cool stuff. It's good to get a break from writing and challenge a different part of my brain.

Considering it's senior year, I'm not feeling anxious like I was expecting to. I'm not worried about finding a job after graduation. I'm smart and bold, I've gained a lot of valuable experience in not a lot of time, and I'm good at my job. And I've largely come to terms with the fact that it's not likely that I'll be working in publishing after I graduate. But that doesn't mean I won't be working. I'm good at the alphabet so I can file like nobody's business. And if that's what I have to do to pay my rent for a while before I can sneak in to the magazine business somewhere, then alrighty. There's no shame in it.