"My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators."

Tomorrow, I'll start yet another semester at USF. And I'm really, really excited about it. And anxious.

I'm signed up for 4 classes, all within the College of Journalism. Everything has worked out for this to happen for me. My scholarship came through so I have until October 30th to pay the difference. I was able to swap schedules with a girl at work, which we started on Tuesday. Working 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. is so much nicer than working 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. I used my last paycheck to buy a new laptop and my parking permit for school. And I'm using this next paycheck to buy books.

It's all coming together. I couldn't be happier.

I feel like I've been out of school forever and I decided to go back to school to finish my degree. Maybe because I didn't feel like a student in the spring. I was only signed up for 2 classes (one in which I didn't even have to attend except for 3 classes the whole semester). I never even had a binder for my classes. I just used an old notebook the entire semester. I was only on campus for 3 hours a week. I never bought a parking permit so I parked in 2-hour parking slots (only getting a ticket once, booya!). And it took me 4 weeks after classes started to finally order my books.

But this time, I'll be doing everything the right way. I have my parking permit, my books will be ordered on Friday, and I'm so ready to begin. I've even signed onto the website to look at the syllabi of my classes (only 2 were posted). I bought a new notebook and some new pens. I'm preparing my binder for my classes already. See? I can totally be a nerd.

Since the fall of 2006, I took 8 semesters straight of classes. Fall, spring, summer. Fall, spring, summer. I've been out for almost 5 months and I am so ready to get back into the groove. I'm ready to graduate with a degree I was supposed to graduate with.