I graduated this past Monday. I’m done. No more grad school. No more Lehigh. Done!

The finality of that statement is weighing down on me. I’m done. It’s hard to say and even harder to hear.

I won’t get to see the friends that I’ve made in the last five years as often as I’ve grown accustom. It’s a hard thing, having to “move onâ€? and “grow upâ€? after being used to the same type of life and taking the proximity of my friends for granted. We are all done.

I’m off to Arizona; some of my friends are moving to California, some to Rhode Island, a few to Texas, a few are staying near Bethlehem to work. We’re all moving on and starting our “adultâ€? lives. This stage of our lives is done, only to be re-lived in thoughts and recollections; old “war storiesâ€? in our minds.

The future is an adventure; even though this part of the journey is done, another part is waiting to begin. In a way, the finality of this part only makes the uncertainty of the next part all the more exciting. I’ll have my own apartment (shared with Lauren, of course), my own job, my own schedule, and my own life. I get to chose now.

In many ways, I’m not really done with my learning after all; this is more the beginning of a new chapter in which I dictate what I learn as opposed to my professors and teachers and people around me.

I’m moving to somewhere new and foreign to me. I’m just starting! More responsibility. More freedom. New beginnings. Now!

Ready or not, here comes life. Beginnings. Endings. New friends. Old Friends. Life goes on and endings are really just new ways of saying that you are starting on new paths through life’s adventure.

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I’m still not sure how I got linked to THIS blog/project website (I suspect through links in Engadget somehow), but it’s one of the coolest websites I’ve been to recently. The site is run/maintained by the artist, John Schimmel, who is in a program at NYU for Interactive Telecommunications. A few of the projects of interest include the Fireflies and the Coffee Table.

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After talking to an employee where I work about all of the sporting activities available out in Tucson, I was motivated to put up a bunch of my old pictures from when I used to rock climb. I’ll be adding more when I hook up my scanner again and when I get my ass back in shape to climb and take new ones. You can check out the pictures that I have added HERE

I finished my last exam on Monday! It’s quite a relief to finally be done with my Masters. The move-out process has begun and it’s been quiet stressful so far. I’ve accumulated way too much stuff for just a few years in Bethlehem.

On Tuesday, Lauren, Liz, Amy (their national consultant), and I went to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The trip was awesome. Lauren, Amy, and I went to see the Ancient Egyptian and Medieval Ages sections of the museum. Some of the most stunning and amazing parts were the rebuilt Temple of Dendur and the Arms and Armor sections.

Wednesday through Saturday I spent visiting Lauren’s family up in Boston. I had an interview on Thursday with an MIT-associated research lab, which was one of the impetuses for us going up to Beantown in the first place (the other being the fact that Lauren and I will most likely be moving down to Tucson, AZ for my new job). At this point, it is probably safe to say that I’m going to be accepting the offer from a defense contractor in Tucson. The job has everything that I could ask for.

In other news… the new Harry Potter movie “Goblet of Fire” will be out in November. Check out the preview HERE. Yeah, I’m a dork….