School...

I seem to write about school a lot when I'm in school. School starts on the 24th (25th for me because I only have classes Tuesdays and Thursdays) and I'm already starting to study. I just feel the need to be ahead rather than behind all the time, plus I hate reading school books so I'm trying to get it over with as fast as possible! Honestly I have this love hate relationship with school, I hate it when I'm in it but I just want to be in it when I'm not and I keep extending my time in school with the directions I want to go.
Well after all the complaining and bitching and moaning about school by the end of the semester it always comes back to me that what I did was amazing. I honestly thought it wasn't that hard to keep good grades and that there's all sorts of students on the Dean's List and that having at 3.5 or above was just something that happened. However, I've come to learn that's not true. People aren't like me about school, constantly dedicated and wanting to do better non stop... so on and so forth. Starting early (really who does that lol)!? Well the end of semester last year came and I was excited to see that as nervous as I was about school I was on the Dean's List again 3rd semester in a row (the only one I didn't get was my first ever semester I wasn't really sure how to navigate and got a 2.8). Well that was awfully exciting for me but the real exciting news came today.
Once again I got a million things from UW ranging from bills to parking ticket notices... blah blah blah. Then there was one more... I opened the letter and it read "Congratulations! Your excellent academic record places you among the most academically distinguished Arts and Sciences students. You will be personally recognized at the annual Keith and Thyra Thomson Honors Convocation on Friday Oct. 9th, the ceremony will begin at 2:30."
At first I was like, well shoot that's my birthday weekend and we're planning to leave town... oh well. So I called my mom and she said absolutely not we are goint to the honors ceremony! She said this doesn't happen all the time and that it's a HUGE accomplishment to get this recognition it doesn't just happen for everyone! So of course I got excited and emailed them to RSVP right away. I guess I just always stress so much that I'm not doing good enough in my own eyes when in everyone else's eyes I'm doing amazing!