Transitions

This past week was an incredibly uneventful one in comparison to others this semester.  On Monday I turned in my College Teaching portfolio, so I knocked one other thing out that I needed to do to be finished.  I think that's pretty much where the excitement ended; everything else was very mundane.  I heard no news (except for bad news) about jobs, and applied for a couple more.  I organized what the last things I need to do for my classes yet.

I was thinking a lot about transitions.  While I do not know what is going to happen in the next month, I know that I have another couple of friends who are going to be making really big changes, as well.  This couple of my friends are graduating with their Ph.D. and Masters and moving to Colorado Springs where my friend got a position as an assistant professor.  I am very excited for her (and them in general), but am incredibly jealous.  She has it figured all figured out.  I don't think she feels that way, necessarily, as there are still many things to do before the move and her partner does  not yet have a job lined up as of yet, either.  Beyond that, it still has to be scary, even if she does have a job lined up; transitions are just scary in general.  What will life be like without taking classes?  Will it be easy or difficult to make friends?  I have always thought it was not too difficult to make friends, but it is not easy to make good friends.  When you come to college, most people are looking to make friends, but as you get older, people have their friend groups and it is more difficult to move into a group.  The only people who have been integrated into my social circle recently are people who have started dating friends, and even then it is difficult to bring that person in.  I think my point is that if I know my group of friends, who I feel are very social, extroverted people for the most part have difficulty bringing new people into the group, what does this mean for the transitions we are all about to make?  Sure, I'll get along with people, but will I make friends like the ones I have now?

The closer I get to graduation, the more aspects of this transition I'm about to make come to light.  I'm just not really sure what to expect for myself.  I guess I'll see what happens.