Full Circle

I don't have time to be writing right now.  I have so much to do with midterms starting next week, but here I sit.  Writing and reflecting.

I hung around in the student lab today after class ended.  I noticed a lot of traffic coming in an out of the conference room beside the lab.  I wrapped up what I was doing and walked out to head home.  I kind of peaked in the conference room and saw a lot of the faculty sitting in there with paperwork spread out all over the table.  That's when it hit me.

Like really hit me.

They were meeting to pick next year's class.

I've said this before, but I got my acceptance call on March 2nd.  That's Wednesday.  Wednesday, the next class will know.

It is just blowing my mind.  I'm really am here.  And I'm still shocked.  I still don't get it.  Like, what made them pick me?  Since I've given tours all semester I've been hit with tough questions from prospective students, I've listened to their concerns, I've encouraged, and I've tried to ease their minds...as this process is stressful and full of uncertainties.  I always tell them to be surprised and that there's "a light at the end of the tunnel".  It really does always work out.

The whole process and stress of it all seems so far away, yet almost like it happened yesterday.  I can still remember how unbelievably stressed I was but I can also remember the PURE JOY I felt the day I found out I got in.  But still, how did it happen?  I know it's part of the bigger picture and my life plan but really, why me?  I asked maybe one question.  I didn't research the program before I came.  I literally just came for a visit.  I rolled with the punches throughout the entire process and somehow got in.

I'm so grateful.  I really have no words for how I feel about being here.  I know that first and foremost, I am getting an amazing education...being educated by men and women who discovered many of the clinical applications that are used daily by audiologists and in the place where many of our test batteries were created.  Really just unbelievable.  After that, I'm here to meet people that I never would have before...my friends.  I can't imagine my life without them.  They are my family here.  But after that?  I'm not sure.  The rest is a mystery.

I'm looking forward to what's ahead.  So happy and content.  Excited for the new bunch headed to the MidWest.

Weird to have come full circle.