Hello again QC! All my procrastinators, scholars, and procrastinating scholars, hello!

I reached my promised thirty posts for QC Voices after my last post, but it didn’t seem right to leave without saying a proper farewell.

When I started this blogging a year ago, I didn’t know what kind of posts I would be writing or how hard it would be to meet my weekly deadlines. I didn’t know if I would truly be able to pull myself up, grades-wise, like I said I would. I didn’t know how grateful I would be for this blog in the end, or just what exactly I would be taking away from it when it was all over.

Every blogger on this blog had a specific theme to write about, a specific theme that they would each intertwine with their student life, but I was the only one whose posts focused solely on academia. I thought that was the overall goal, for each of us to write about our individual experiences as QC students. It wasn’t until I met my fellow bloggers at our first meeting that I began to feel the first inklings of uneasiness. Each blogger had their own theme, whether it be music, food, or travel, and all I had was an F on my transcript and a love for memes and gifs. What was I thinking?

But I had already been accepted, and the writing-loving part of me was curious to see what I could do. So in the midst of feeling like I had made a big, big mistake, I sat in front of the computer and churned out my first post. And thus, Awesome Monkey never looked back.

In the year of Awesome Monkey’s existence, there have been posts that just flowed out naturally, and posts that I struggled over for days. I didn’t know what I was going to write about each week, and quite frankly, I ended up writing about the same thing more than once. A good handful of my posts are about finals, papers, and projects; I gave tips, I shared my experiences, and I wrote a lot about the best friend, because that’s what my life consisted of, and so that’s what I wrote about.

Now, a year later and looking back on all my posts, I realize that I had found my little niche after all, and I had grown. I went from an unsure blogger who was trying to put the pieces of her GPA back together to a blogger with a quirky voice, a signature in memes, and a GPA that was back in the 3.0 zone. I met wonderful people in the course of the past year, and I learned that I was capable of more than I gave myself credit for.

So thank you, QC Voices, for the opportunity of turning myself into words on a page, and getting myself pretty close on track. Thank you, fellow bloggers, for your enjoyable and touching posts, and occasional comments on mine! Thank you, to the best friend, for regularly reading my posts without fail (surprise! Bet you weren’t expecting a shoutout 😉 ), and to any of you who have done the same.

Here’s a toast of good luck to all of us, and all our future endeavors!

-Awesome Monkey