Best Feeling in the World

I did it!!

Finals are done.

Grades are in.

Paperwork is complete.

I have two majors: Anthropology and Classical Studies. I went on overload this semester to try to get a little bit ahead in everything because I thought I’d run out of time to get everything in that I need for those majors. Turns out, I have plenty of time, but I didn’t find that out until I met with one of my advisors a few weeks ago. Anyway, in addition to taking 19 credit hours (including second semester Latin, fourth semester H2P, a special topics course, and two courses dominated by grad students), I started out trying to work on the Digital Pompeii Project and produce a map of painting styles in Pompeii for the Humanities Department, and I found out that I might still be able to go to Rome, so I had all that paperwork and running around to do.

Most of the time, I thought I was going to die.

But I did it!! I did well in my classes, spoke with my professor about being let off the hook for the Digital Pompeii stuff until I get back from Rome, got my map produced (it now hangs in the Digital Pompeii lab, where, according to my professor, the lovely earth tone is “having a bit of an argument” with the putrid orange color of the wall – I just told him the wall went from being orange to pink: more variety that way), and I got all my paperwork turned in. *Insert big sigh of relief here.* I did it.

So, I’m not in Rome yet, but I think I’m well on my way, and I’ve hurdled the first set of obstacles. As hard as it was this semester, I think I’d do it all over again, if only because being able to say “I did it” is the best feeling in the world.