Commitment to Graduation

Posted on January 24, 2014 by sammweber

I came across a quote today that really caught my attention.
“We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start.”
This week I began my last semester of college. While I wasn’t really looking forward to going back, I also never thought this semester would start off this miserable either. I knew it would be difficult since I had to take 19 credits to graduate (a schedule in which the registrar so kindly reminded me is “considered an overload and is billed accordingly” today), but I thought it would be manageable. Unfortunately, the week before I came back to school, my schedule was rearranged. I was kicked out of an English class I had chosen to take and placed in a freshman World Drama class that requires me to spend 15 hours working crew for the college’s play, act out two memorized seven minute scenes in front of the class with at least one person I do not know, attend all five GCC drama productions this semester (and write papers on each of them), and read approximately fifteen plays I have absolutely no interest in reading. On top of all of that, my other classes are extremely boring and completely irrelevant to anything I want to do with my life.
So, after the longest first week ever, I decided to come home for the weekend after I pitched ProfilePasser to a group of investors this afternoon in Pittsburgh. The entire time I was in the city today, I couldn’t help but wish I was done with school and that I could focus all of my time on running my business. But, then I read the quote above about finishing what I start. While I am 99% sure this semester is going to feel like an eternity and that I am going to have to do a lot of reading and assignments that I don’t really want to do, I am the kind of person who follows through on my commitments. After all, it’s true: it doesn’t really matter what I start, it only matters if I finish it. So, here’s to my last semester of college, a semester in which I am sure I will learn more about dedication than anything else.