Overwhelmingly Overwhelmed!

I think this title could pretty much desribe not only my life right now, but the lives of my 11 classmates as we push towards that light that is FINALLY at the end of the tunnel!

Right now, I (as should all my classmates) should be studying furiously for the praxis exam this weekend. I paid $130 to take the test, and it pretty much determines how awesome or crappy my month of April is, but I just can't find it in me to sit down and study for hours on end. I think my ability to do that is all but washed away with 7 years of college.

If we don't pass the praxis, we have to take 3rd year comps, which is totally crappy. BUT it gets even better. They are the Monday after our white coat ceremony when everyone's family will be in town, and the Monday after I have to move out of my apartment. Awesome. If I don't happen to pass the praxis, I have to take that again the last weekend in April so it just keeps getting better.

Oh, then theres our research. Everyone is "balls deep" writing lit reviews, collecting and interpreting data, and who knows what else. What seemed like we had forever to do is now looming right in front of us threatening to make us stay even longer!

I'm having so many mixed emotions about moving. I'm super excited to start over in a new city, and see new things and make new friends (and maybe go to a bar where I don't recognize everyone from last week) I'm ready for a more routine life thats not here one day, there the next, up early this day, up late this night, etc. I think my body will be so much happier! I'm very apprehensive to leave home though. This is where I grew up and its pretty much all I know. There are a few people around that I'm really not excited to leave here either (they probably know who they are!) I just keep telling myself everything will work out in time. It's just a year and a lot can happen in that time. In the end everything is all right, if its not right, its not the end.

Alas, I would love to spend a few days at the beach with a cocktail in hand and have no a worry in the world, but oh yea, I get to work right through spring break :( All I have to say is, Good Gravy!