It's official!

It's official, I've completed my Master's Degree. So I am now a Master of Science! I like the sound of that.

Strangely enough, my being done with my degree doesn't feel much different from being in a degree program. I think this is due to education being such a big part of my life. Working in education (going on 8 years now) I'm surrounded by the atmosphere of classes, teaching, and learning. My work life is dominated by the school calendar and school concerns. I'm sure my feelings are also due to there being a two year break for my religious mission during my undergrad and it taking me five years to complete my graduate program due to lack of funds at different times. Over the last thirty-two years I have been in school or in a degree program for about twenty-three of them.

What's more, because I work at a university I have access to classes and degree programs at a inexpensive rate (i.e. free to a certain extent) so the possibility of taking classes without having to worry about funding is always present. As I've learned more about myself and what kind of work I like to do I've considered getting a second Bachelor's in management information systems (something along the lines of database administration). I would only be able to take a couple of classes a semester (due to time and the tuition waiver policy) so it would take me quiet a while, but it's free, so why not take advantage of it.

What this ultimately means is that any time I'm not actively enrolled in classes just feels like a break between classes. It doesn't matter if it's for three months or two years. It's just a break from classes. They'll start up again in the future and I'll have homework, lectures, etc. and things will feel normal again. Granted, my definition of normal is different from others.