After my Math make-up test today, I’ll have finished another year of college. Not my first year, though. That I did straight out of high school, and made a mess of the whole thing. No, this is my first year where I got nearly straight A’s (every class except Math), and didn’t drop out of a single course.

This is amazing to me. I mean, I always thought I was smart, but this is really the first time I’ve ever pushed myself to actually do good in school. I never got straight A’s in high school. I never even tried. And the B I got in Math this semester isn’t going to dampen my enthusiasm . I’m actually thrilled that I did so well, considering that Math is really, really hard for me. All those rules for what to do when really make it hard for me to remember how to work a problem without external help with the way of a book, but since we have to take tests without notes, I did my best, and it’s good enough to let me go on next semester. Only two more Math classes to go until I’m done with Math for good. Yippy!

However, with school done for the semester, I have no idea what to do with all this time on my hands. It’s very weird to get home and not have any homework that needs to be done. No papers that need writing, no equations that need to be solved. No real reason to sit down at the computer and get things done.

This lack of school work to be done does leave time for things I haven’t really done much of. TV watching, for instance. Although, I kind of liked not watching so much TV. But, with the TV watching comes knitting, because then I feel like I’m really getting things done.

I have a couple of projects on the needles that I need to get back to, and some socks that need pairs. So, this summer, instead of blogging about school work, I’ll be blogging about knitting. And reading. And writing. And pretty much the same old stuff, just repackaged into something new. Maybe.

But I’m still having school withdraws. I’ll let you know when I get my books for next semester. Because I’m forcing myself to not buy them now. I need some sort of vacation, I guess.

- “Loosing a Whole Year,” Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind