I'm done! (with college)

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I have just completed my last exam (interestingly, in my favorite class with my favorite professor - environmental politics and policy) of my undergraduate career here at CMU!

5 years, and a fair amount of stress, but I'm finally done.

I am now going to drink some Oberon and bake some beer bread.

You may now go about the rest of your evening activities.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Congratulations, Inks!!

Any plans for graduate school?

Wayne State Law School.  The plan (as of now - which could change) is environmental and election law with a bit of corporate law sprinkled in there.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

You realize what we all thought when we first read that?

I figured the exclamation point made it clear enough it was a happy done.  I've fixed it.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

my condolences.  I am in stage 1/2 of the grieving process myself -- all downhill from here, until perhaps retirement at age ~70.

Half of undergrad?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Yeah, it's pretty much the worst feeling ever. I'm trying to alleviate the pain by making grandiose summer plans, but what lies beyond August 2012 (Lollapoolza)

Try to alleviate the pain with Scotch!

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

   
I'm done! (with college)

You're done?!  What are you, a turkey in the oven?  What you are is finished.  You are the one doing the doing, not the one being done.  I've gotten used to construction workers saying "done" when referring to "finished" but a college graduate?!  One might think that if you really ought to be finished with college you might be able to discriminate between a direct object and a subject.  Well, I blame the schools, not you.  Our tax dollars at work.  (Please at least tell me you went to a state school, and not a private one, so that I can hold on to the false hope that our society isn't crumbling.)

Typically I'm a grammar Nazi, but you caught me on this one.  Also, I went to a private school (although the English program was quite bad. It was still much better than Lincoln Park public schools, though).