I finally graduated! A year later than I should have but I've done it. I had to give a 20 minute speech today in front of a panel of 4 of my technical high school's/college's staff and they were late getting to me. I ended up speaking for almost an hour, according to my dad whom I asked to come along. They were highly impressed when I was finished. I even taught a psych major more about psychology, things she hadn't known! I had to wait to receive a call from my senior culminating project instructor and I ended up missing because my dad had some job application to fill out somewhere and I had left my phone at home. But I got to my phone as soon as I got home and listened to the message my instructor had left me. She congratulated me, saying I definitely passed and that (according to the panel members) my presentation was the best they had seen out of all of them, and I was the only student to exceed the standards. After I listened to that message my dad and I hugged for the first time in several years. All this time I though, "Meh, it's high school, no big deal." But once I knew I graduated, it was a big deal. 13 years of school finally payed off. And now I get to look forward to another 10 years until I become a psychiatrist!