I have wasted too much energy apologizing, and I refuse to do so again today. Instead I will sit and expound on the great relief finishing several intense classes has given me. They are over and done with, and although I miss the people I have met while taking them, I do not miss the assignments. Classes have a bittersweet taste when they end. You are glad to have no more work, but you are not glad to say good-bye to the people you met there. Although they do not disappear from your life - you still keep in touch - there no longer is that camaraderie you shared in meeting the challenges of the class. It was a common ground both of you shared, and it is no more.

I do not know if I am disappointed or relieved. It might be that I feel a confusing mixture of both. Either way, I have finished, and I ended very satisfactorily.