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As my official time as student nears its end, I’ve been thinking about how I want continue my life.
Of course, I will be working after I graduate. However, It’s hard for me to imagine a time when I didn’t have school, save those fleeting moments during the summer.
Over the last few semesters, I’ve grown to appreciate knowledge and the process of acquiring it. And I don’t think I’m ready to stop yet. I hope I’m never ready to stop learning.
Thus, I’m launching a new project: Five in Five - Five things I want to do in the five years after I graduate. I’ll admit, the list is pretty aggressive, but I think it’s doable.
However, the keyword here is “want.” I want to complete these things because I think they are interesting and I feel they will be useful. That being said, I’m not sure if I will be able to complete it all within five years and, even then, I’m not even sure if I want to complete all things I’ve laid out.
I’ve ordered the list is roughly the order I plan to complete them in:
- Travel the World
- Pilot’s license
- Certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
- Masters Degree
- Professional Engineer
As always, keep it tuned here for all the fun. Soon, I’ll be doing a lot of talking, asking, and planning about the first part of my Five in Five: Traveling the World.
Tags: EMT, Five in Five, knowledge, learning, Master degree, Pilot's license, Professional Engineer, Travel the World
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Today is the beginning of fall semester; my last fall semester. I’m aware that this is monumental moment, however I can’t quite bring myself to really believe that this is it: the beginning of the end of 17+ years worth of education1.
And yet it is.
This past summer has been amazing in many ways. I had some amazing conversations with some amazing people, both in my personal life and at work. I still don’t have the future planned out, but that’s okay.
At the end of my high school graduation speech, I quoted a famous Churchill line, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” I think I was about four and a half years too soon on that remark.
This, my friends, really is it. I’m getting ready to write the last chapter in a book I like to call Andrew Ferguson: The First 23 Years.
Thus I think it’s fitting that while I work on closing this chapter and book in my life, I am able to announce the title of my next book - Andrew Ferguson: The Boeing Years.
As my third internship with them was coming to an end, Boeing elected to offer me a job for after graduation.
I accepted.
After some time off to catch a breather, I’ll be returning to my group sometime in the late summer of 2009.
So, stick around. This year is going to be crazy-awesome and as Frank Sinatra sang,
The best is yet to come, and, babe, won’t that be fine,
You think you’ve seen the sun, but you ain’t seen it shine
1 I would actually argue that learning is a lifelong adventure. I hope to never stop being educated. So really, this is the end of my formal education - at least for the time being.
Tags: Boeing, education, graduation, job offer, learning, Winston Chuchill
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