I’ll Let You Be My Chaperone at the Halfway Home

As of today, I am exactly halfway done with my LIS degree.

This is a very exciting point in an otherwise less-than-exciting summer. It means that I’ve completed 32 credits and have 32 left. 31 left, technically, because the requirement is 63. Today, actually, I finished a block class (Research Methods), which I have been feverishly working on for the past 5 weeks, that earned me 4 credits. I have 2 more classes that will last until August 19th. Then I’ll have 6 weeks off, and I get to buy myself Felicity: Senior Year (I’m all about ridiculous, materialistic rewards), and then once I get through fall, winter, and spring, I’m done!

Haha. It sounds like a lot, but it’s really not that bad. Once summer is over, all I'll have left are 6 more classes: Information Systems, Architecture & Retrieval; Information in Social Context; Management of Information Organizations; Collection Development; Government Publications; and Information Literacy. And 40 hours of directed fieldwork. And a portfolio (my preferred alternative to the thesis option--ugh). And then...

I’ll be done.

And Matt will be too. Next come jobs. That’s a whole other issue. For now I’m focusing on the fact that I’m halfway done. And feeling good about it.

I realize the boringness of this post. But I felt I had to commemorate the occasion in some way.