Entering Ajay’s Mind

Subject: HSU degree granted!

Okay, maybe it’s not so exciting to you, but since the most important parts are short:

Dear Ajay,

On behalf of Humboldt State University, congratulations on earning your degree! Your official date of graduation is 16-May-07.
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Congratulations again, and best wishes for future success and personal satisfaction.

(Sent by one Travis Brunner, but signed by Hillary A. Dashiell of the Registrar’s office, which I think is a funny inconsistency, plus it’s from the former’s personal HSU address. Silly ppl. heh)  (PS: As aforementioned, my Grad pics are online.)
I do like that last line though.. isn’t that what it’s all about?

So I started thinking, “Nah, they wouldn’t want to read about me graduating, my degree and all that (esp since so many of the FB’ers reading this are still in “school”)” and thought instead of quoting another old email I found, fwd’d from my school’s President, Rollin Richmond, but originally from the Graduation Alliance Pledge Coordinators. (more…)

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So!  It’s done.

Wild.  Weird.  Is it true, is it real?  After SO many years (of school, or even college in particular), it’s done, this is it?  No way.  Whatever will I do with myself?  I have watched friends graduate (especially in the last few years) with no seeming direction, but with a lot of nervousness/anxiety/similar emotions, and I admit, I thought they were a bit silly. (more…)

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(Granted, I’m writing this as IF I had written this right after finals, not a week(s) later!

Well then! That’s an end to that. (Phew!) That was definitely the most challenging semester of my life, in.. pretty much most ways. A bunch of science classes (with 6 hours of Lab in BacT, 2 hours in Stats, and fieldtrips in my WasteWater class.. heck, even my social science class had 2 hours of lab per week! Luckily next semester will see none of that (as long as BacT sees a C- (”C’s get Degrees” - Danny Strautman)), and then, this “job”. Aye. Please explain what is this. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it on here before, so I’m doing the “LGA” thing (aka an RA) at school now, working as part of HSU’s ^[1] Residence Life Staff. ^[2] It’s supposed to be a good experience, it’s supposed to be a safe environment, it’s..
(okay, this part is actually written MONTHS later! The word “Safe” is one that came up in one of my first conversations with someone who was involved here, Lynisha Perkins. So, it’s Supposed to be good, and a good experience, and a lot of things, but.. I don’t know about all that.. not just anymore, even once I was approaching the opportunity, I think I was a little skeptical, using, or absorbing, phrases such as “Big Housing.” Well, long story short, it was a bit of a challenging semester. I definitely never wanted to be an authority figure, that’s the last of the my desires, yet I took a position that has some responsibility for discipline? Seemingly, For ensuring that people are conducting themselves or behaving in an acceptable manner. Wow, I don’t know about all that. I did take this job for one reason, to help connect people, with resources, other people, really, to help a rockin community grow and thrive.

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