Time to celebrate! It is hard to believe it... but today marked my very LAST day to be with my third and final externship. Put a fork in me, I am D.O.N.E! A lot of people have asked me lately what it feels like to be done, and a huge part of me wants to laugh (and cry) and respond "Done? I've only just begun!" I once heard someone mention to me that once graduate school ends, the real learning begins, and I am growing to see that more and more, this is so true.
It's a scary thing to be done and not know what my next step will be. I do know that my hands are tied for the immediate future in terms of job interviews, because it will take about a month for my degree to post to my transcript and I can't apply for licensure until that happens, so I am kind of in this weird, purgatory, SLP-CF holding pattern until the nitty gritty paperwork gets processed. This is frustrating in a way, because I really want to start seeing what's out there, but I can't really get my wheels turning to do that until I am more closer to being able to say that my license is being processed.
This post goes out as sort of a 'thank you' to all those who helped make this dream a reality for me. I remember four long years ago when I thought this moment might never come... and it finally has. It has been marked with joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, determination, bitterness, excitement, frustration, and everything in-between. Thank you to everyone, from the bottom of my heart, for standing beside me while I climbed this mountain of an academic adventure. I've finally made it to the top!
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