College Graduation & A Day In My Life

I have graduated college! It just took seven years.

Graduation

I started college at Colorado School of Mines 2016, and seven years later I graduate from Boise State in 2023. In between the seven years a lot happened. I struggled with depression around 2018, dropping out of CSM to late into a semester to drop classes, plummeting my GPA, and moved back to Idaho, where a family friend was kind enough to give me a job at his business. A lot of other stuff happened, I took some classes to get my GPA up, but BSU kept rejecting me, then COVID hit. I read an article that colleges were looking to enroll students because they were struggling and the next application I sent in I got accepted. Three years after that I graduated with my Undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, a field I love.

A Day In My Life

My family has a tradition that almost every New Year, they make a short video showing their Day In The Life. These short videos have been a great way to see what my sister and brother and law are up to while they travel the country for his medical placements, what my brother is up to in college, and what all my family friends have been doing. In previous years I had not made one, but with a degree in my pocket, my little Nissan Leaf getting worse by the day, and a New In-N-Out opening up in Meridian with cues up to 8hrs, I knew what I was going to do with my Day.

Here is my Day In The Life

I am incredibly proud of how this came out. I love the parallel in the video about how long it took me to graduate and how long it took me in the Leaf to get to In-N-Out. And because it took a long time, it must have been a good use of my time. Right?

I have graduated, and I am incredibly happy with my degree, but was it worth seven years of my time if I don’t feel I want to use the degree?