A new month has started. For me, that means my monthly budget has started over. It means I am one month closer to receiving my coveted grad school decisions. It means we are all closer to having to hand in assignments and write midterms. It means Reading Week is only two weeks away! For fourth year students, some or most of us will have applied to graduate, and we will be anxiously checking our Carleton Central accounts.
February ought to be a time that each of us savours. February is our penultimate “real” month of our last semester of our undergrad. We feel as though the end is tangible, and we have grown accustomed to the routine we have developed over four years. We seek change. We desire newness.
Despite February being a significant time of limbo for all of us, regardless of what our postgraduate plans may be, we ought to relish this time. After all, the passing of February will bring us closer to our transition from the Carleton safety net to the outer world. Perhaps, once all of this time has passed, and we are seated in our new apartments in new cities saturated by newness, we will crave this quiet February familiarity. We must not forget that.
