Year Reflections

Personal October 01, 2008

It's Rosh Hashana and it's the beginning of October. What a long year it's been. I'm still surprised that I managed to finish up the last year of school and maintain relative sanity. I spent so many years of my education convinced that grades were super important and that I was doomed for life if I got anything less than a 95. Mind you, this was not my parents' doing; this was simply me and my neurosis.

But when I finally got some solid internship experience in a field I was passionate about (design) and my obtaining the job had nothing to do with my GPA, I realized that how I did in school wasn't *that* important. Rather than just care "less" however, I did a total 180 and embraced 100% apathy. I skipped homework assignments and classes, did the bare minimum on assignments and I recall even asking my computer science professor what the point of our class was.

I still managed to leave Penn cum laude but what a way to exit though! Now it's all a distant memory. No more classes, tests, homework. When I go home from work, I leave it there. It's quite a change, but it's much better this way. Sure, there are pros and cons to being a real person in the real world, but overall I'm excited at the prospect of making a real impact in the world now. My motivation is no longer a simple grade on a transcript; it's simply passion.

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