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Despite the overused nature of the title, the core meaning holds true.  3 and a half years of university gone by in the blink of an eye.  Having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of early graduation.  Hopefully a Bachelor's in Architecture is still worth something to a few hiring firms out there.  Leaving the world of academia and entering the world of practice is an awfully unnerving feeling. "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."                                                              ~ George Bernard Shaw

With the days ticking towards December and my impending graduation is looming over the horizon, it's amazing how things can just seem to slow to a steady coast.  It also offers one time to think.  And in that time I've taken to the appreciation of so many things that I had otherwise labeled as "things to put off" given the prospect that I have no time for said things.  I've cut down on reading, on writing, and on the arts; all things that once gave me a deep sense of fulfillment.  Now things are more laid back.  My classes are more intuitive and it takes me far less time to achieve something than it would have having done the equivalent only