Goodbye to Studenthood

As there are currently only three weeks left in my program, I am starting to realize that a lot of my ready-made excuses will be losing their appropriateness pretty quickly.  After five years and two degrees I am losing my “Well, I am a student” response! 

Here are a few things I might be frowned upon for doing:

• Taking my laundry home to my mom, because the one in my apartment charges $2.50.  
• Eating expired yogurt.  Doesn’t yogurt come bad? Why waste something so delicious?  They have got to start making those variety packs smaller.
• Not grocery shopping until all that is left in the cupboards is rice and clam chowder.
• Taking multi-hour afternoon naps.  Apparently this doesn’t work well with having a full time job.
• Eating snacks before going to a restaurant so I am not tempted to order too much expensive food.  Ok, so maybe this has been tacky to do all along.
• Stocking up on food by raiding the cupboards of my family.
• Scamming the car insurance company by claiming my parent’s address as my permanent residence to save on ridiculous Vancouver prices.  
• Mentioning pretentious readings in casual conversations.  Just because I have been inundated with it all day long, it doesn’t mean anyone else wants to talk about Huxley’s take on modern religion.
• Testing how far my car can drive without gas in it.

Ok, so it is not likely I will stop doing all these things.  That laundry is not getting any cheaper!  I will miss being a student though, as much as I complain about it.  University has been the most glorious time.  Where else can you soak up a good lecture on Canadian history in the morning, leisurely do readings in the afternoon after your nap, maybe work a few hours at a part-time job, and hang out with your equally slacking friends all evening.  I spent my morning of classes today discussing literature and then making a video.  Tough job, eh?  Working people do not enjoy this luxury!  As excited as I am to be teaching this fall, I am not wishing away my last few weeks of being a student.

Enjoy it fellow B.Ed’ers.  We will be the teachers soon enough.  Personally, I am gonna go make myself a good student dinner of scrambled eggs and toast, and see what kind of deals I can get before my student card expires!