So today is my last day of classes - at least at Ripon College. Last night was my last History Senior Seminar. This one guy brought a full brass band in for his presentation - music in the Civil War - he had an awesome presentation! Anyways, at the end of class our overly zealous professor, obsessed with African History, gave the usual speach: blah blah blah, the history department will miss you all ... you're the best group of majors we've had in a long time .... make sure to check in and let us know how you're doing. We all gather our things and get ready to go and he asks us to wait and starts clapping at us. We were like ok, thanks?! Then he invited us to applaude him ... so we did. Then he proceeds to tell us he's going on a 2 year leave and might not come back and he'll never forget us and blah blah blah the tears started to flow!! Can you believe that?! Anyways, it was definitely a little weird! So guess what?! I AM DONE WITH RIPON!! Kind of, I have to student teach next semester but that only entails meeting with a seminar class once a week and I'm doing my placements in Berlin and Princeton - smaller than Port Edwards.