Well, it's here. The day we've all been waiting for.
Well, I've been waiting for it and I'm sure my friends and family have been waiting for the whining to stop.
My last day of internship is tomorrow.
Part of me feels like I spent the last 10 years of my life at that internship. The other part of me feels like I just started last week.
Reality is, that for the last 8-ish months, I have completed 3 insanely hard sessions of graduate school, 512 internship hours, and worked a full 40 hours every week. Ok, well maybe not every week, I took a few vacation hours occasionally when I just couldn't handle it anymore. I had to find a new internship about a month in. I had Lasiks during one of those crazy sessions; seriously though why didn't anyone tell me that was poor timing? I created an awesome program for families; which meant I traveled to Nampa more than ever before. Since that isn't enough, I still managed to Crossfit at least 3 times a week, most weeks, AND I managed to have some occasional fun.
Did I mention I also got A's in all my classes and managed to get the best work eval to date?
So many people have asked me how I did it.
I don't know. I seriously do not know how anyone can survive that, and remain even somewhat sane.
I am going to school to be a clinical social worker, and if any client ever came into my office telling me they were doing all of that I would seriously want to tell them to quit something. Of course, I couldn't tell them to, but I'd want to!
The human body is amazing. The amount of adrenaline and stress hormones that I no-doubt lived off for the last 8 months is incredible. I know that living off those things isn't a good thing, but the fact that a body can perform at a pretty decent level despite all the stress is amazing.
I'm feeling it now though. I am SO tired. I slept all of yesterday, and even this morning I was STILL tired! I also am a tid bit emotional. I mean, I'm normally a cry baby, but this is definitely increased. Don't worry our professors warned us these things may happen. Your body does weird things when all those stress hormones leave.
All that said, I'm glad I did it, MOSTLY because now I have excuse to celebrate like I've never celebrated before!
I still have until October before I get that fancy piece of paper, but I feel like the hardest part is over.
I'm so grateful for my family who supported me through it all. I can't count how many times my parents came over to help my house in one way or another or my aunt, uncle, and cousins coming over to help with my fence. So awesome! And my friends who constantly supported me and made me laugh. They reminded me that I what I do is important, and that I could finish. And of course my poor co-workers who have picked up the slack and dealt with half of my brain being gone for the last 8 months, and never even yelled at me once. I can't tell you how happy I'll be to be able to put more effort into my job. Weird, I know.
It's been a crazy ride, but I did it y'all!
Now... Will someone bring me a beer. Or 20???