One Semester Left

Today I turned in my application for graduation to the Registrar's office at San Jose State University. I was so nervous that the woman behind the counter would look over my paper and say "wait a minute, there is an error here" or "You aren't eligible for this because you're missing something"..but instead she just looked at me, smiled, and said congratulations.

For a while I didn't think that graduating in two years as a photo major would be a possibility.  There are four sessions that happen over the course of the academic school year at SJSU.  Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer.  Classes are available depending on the session, some are strictly for spring, some are strictly for fall, and only certain classes are held during summer and winter session.  Most students who major in something normal have the chance to take classes for all four sessions of the year.  But art (photo) classes are not offered for winter or summer sessions.  This makes completing our units pretty difficult when there is a cap of 16 units on the students right now due to impaction.  But somehow I did it.

 I have 18 units left to graduate and I will be completing them all in the spring.  Planning my schedule today left me feeling a little suffocated from the thought of taking 5 activity classes (classes that are project based, a lot of time consuming work) and 1 lecture class. But I know that it'll be worth it when I finish, and I'm really looking forward to some of them! Advanced lighting, history of photography, and 3d design should all be pretty interesting. 

Anyway,  I can't wait to finish school.  It feels like I've been a college student forever, and while I've learned a ton of things that will help me in my career later on, I am soo ready to be done. =)