Weekly post

April 28, 2008

Dear friends,

Still no word on financial aid from Southern, which promised information by mid-April. I called last week, but they did not have info for me, so I will probably call again today. I'm hoping to get the information this week, not least so that I can meet with Wake Forest's financial aid person assigned to div students and make sure I make the student-loan transition correctly. The federal-loan folks will need to know that I'm still a student!

I have only one more class session left but three (count 'em) papers. I'm hoping to get two of them done by tomorrow; the third is not actually due for another week. Because my schooling will keep going in the fall, the academic part doesn't feel like a transition. What does feel like a transition is knowing that I'm leaving the community that has been like home and family for three years. I've seen others graduate and know that despite good intentions on all sides, once you graduate, you really have to hop out of the nest and make room for other fledglings. These classmates and faculty I have held dear for three years -- in another couple of weeks, it's unlikely that I'll be talking with or crossing paths with them much.

The tricky part of life is that it does have this tendency to keep moving. As the kids say, it's all good.

Grace and peace,
Beth