I have known that my advisor had planned to schedule my defense date for about a month now. I've known for the past two weeks, at least, when the official date was going to be. However, I did not fully own that I was actually graduating until about five minutes ago.
I've been going at it with my documents for the past few weeks. Struggling to make sure that I've given my best and that I accurately honored the voices of the teens who lent their voices to this work. I was unsure and anxious about whether or not what I wrote was good enough. Scholarly enough. Strong enough.
About 140 pages into edits this afternoon I still wasn't convinced, but was trying hard to force a conclusion so I could send it off to the committee.
It wasn't until stepping away and really taking in what this work means and what value is in the messages of those youth that I really felt complete.
Finally, after over 5 years, I feel like I've produced what I came here for.
This is definitely just the brink of another beginning, but I am UTTERLY ecstatic that I can finally feel like "that's a wrap"…well, real soon!
I'm graduating, y'all!!!!
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