I’m Back - as an Alumna!
These past few months have brought so much change to my life. I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Birmingham Southern College with a BA Degree in three years. I am also enroled in the University of Alabama’s School of Law Class of 2011. Now I have moved home and need to both physically and mentally prepare myself for a grueling graduating program. Some of the goodbyes I have said were very difficult, even though I remind myself that a new, more relevant chapter to my life has begun. Maybe it’s the fact that I want my successes to lead to a career in which I can care for someone else who is my life companion. And no, I don’t want marriage now-AT ALL. But I’d like for someone to share in at least part of this journey with me…
Back to my BODY: (ha ha ha) A couple months ago I did a little charity run/race and got second overall and first in women’s. Fabulous, except I was running on shin splints and ultimately injured them so badly that any intense cardio (any walking like a normal person, for that matter) was out of the question. Last week was the first time I could run more than ten minutes without severe pain. Now I need to build my stamina again and do everything I can to keep them from coming back.
My strength has also gone down. Studying for exams and a senior capstone does not happen all by itself, and it was very hard to see time in the library fly by and I just was not done in time to go to the gym. It’s been an exhausting semester to say the least.
But at least I’m back! And I HAVE to get in stellar shape for law school. (And for my 21st birthday this June 
) *Mwah!*
May 19, 2008 at 7:11 am
Wow, there’s something about motivation that gets some of us.
I, too, am a Summa grad, and I did my 4.5-year degree (BFA - Graphic Design) in slightly over 3.5. Nice to get out early, isn’t it?
Good luck at law school. I was a paralegal for almost 4 years (in the Army), and I enjoyed working with many of the attorneys I came into contact with. But, of course, there were also the ones that thought us paralegals were simply brainless gophers that couldn’t do anything. Don’t be the latter, and you’ll make it just fine
Also, big respect for staying in shape while kicking your own ass in school. I let myself gain about 25 pounds while in school, but quickly shed the fat and added muscle when it was over. Of course, my wife was deployed and I had a 2-year-old to take care of, but no excuses, right? Congrats on everything…that’s some tough sh*t you’re putting yourself through.