On the one hand, I'm ready to proclaim that I am back and ready to go for my final semester of grad school. On the other, I can't escape the fact that four out of the eight shows I did with the Clarkson Theatre Company were my last show with them before moving on to other things. As I round out the last corner to my MFA, I can't help but see the parallel there. I directed four farewell shows with Clarkson because I was always sure I was about to move on to something else, and life invariably had other plans, or I decided I wanted to get in just one more.
Grad school may be the same way. Even though I'm finishing my MFA at Mary Baldwin, there are other degrees, PhDs and MSs, specifically, that I could get. There is a difference from being done and from being done for the moment.
So I won't trivialized finality by saying this is my final semester of grad school. Lets call it my infinal semester instead. I'm almost done for the moment. Put it that way, and graduating seems a lot less impressive in my mind's ear; almost like it's more of a starting gate than a finishing line.
But I knew that already.
Every accomplishment is really just a gateway to your next challenge. So is every defeat. Life is a lot less stressful when we remember that/
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