As the holiday season subsides, I’m gradually coming back to reality. Things at work have been unusually stressful, as I’m training two people to replace me when I leave my current job and often find myself running in circles…literally. It all feels very real now since I turned in my resignation letter – my last official day is in 2 weeks! At approximately 8:37pm on Monday night, after several long nights and early mornings over the last week, I got myself temporarily caught up to a place where I could stop working. I immediately dropped everything and ran to bed before I could get another phone call or text message, or before my email page could refresh itself again.
Despite the stress, I’m excited about the transition. In the midst of all the changes, it just really settled on me this week that I am no longer a college student! I have graduated and re-entered the life of professionalism. Before the holidays, I wrote about not being chosen for a research job I had really hoped to get. Since then, I have been offered (and accepted) a part-time teaching position in the Aviation and Aerospace Sciences department of a small college in Denver. Despite the size of the college, the department has a strong and long standing reputation in the industry, and is ranked fifth in the country. I look forward to working there.
It looks like this weekend I’ll be putting in some additional hours to stay on top of a couple of new projects that came across my desk this week. I don’t mind so much, as I want to get things finished. Next week I’ll treat myself to something special 
