Tumblr seems dead but right now it’s a space that I guess I’ll use to briefly process something very important to me.
Today (Monday May 18th, 2020) was supposed to be my major department’s commencement ceremony. I was supposed to be asleep by now so I could wake up early to prepare for graduation, go to campus, and walk the stage in front of my friends, family, and colleagues. Of course this global pandemic had other ideas and there are far worse things going on in the world other than graduations getting cancelled.
Even so, it’s pretty sad for me that I won’t get to celebrate with my loved ones. I won’t get to enjoy the closure that graduates typically feel, at least not in any sort of traditional way. I’ve been an undergraduate college student for almost a decade of my life. To have it wrap up like this is difficult. I’m trying to take it in stride but it does bring me down at times.
Anyway... I’m still trying to recognize what I have accomplished and let it sink in that I should be astoundingly proud of myself right now. I went from being a high school drop out to being a college graduate. I’m graduating from UC Berkeley with highest honors in sociology. I have a 4.0 GPA and I’m debt-free. I conducted two independent research projects and produced two papers (one of which might get published), and co-authored a research paper with a professor/chair of the Sociology Department. I was accepted into the McNair Scholars Program and into the American Sociological Association’s Honors Program which allowed me to go to New York City to present my senior honors thesis research. I worked as a theory tutor, an editor for my department’s undergraduate research journal, and as a teaching assistant for three separate sociology classes. And on top of it all, I was awarded Departmental Citation, which means that I am the top graduating sociology major for the class of 2020. Holy shit. I did that.
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