End of the Semester

I can't believe that another semester is coming to an end so quickly. Actually what I really can't believe is that this is my very last semester here at Clarkson University. It didn't truly hit me until dead week that this was actually my last semester, with 2 of my 5 classes already completed, after completing final presentations, its hard to believe that next year I will be doing something completely different than I have ever done in my life. I won't be going to school. It is so strange to think about. It is a little strange but for some reason the song that comes to my mind the most when thinking about next year and how I am feeling a little lost since I have no definite job at this moment is Bob Dylan's :"Mr. Tambourine Man". I feel like it may seem a little strange that is the song that is ringing in my mind, and it could be just because that it is a rainy and mellow day out, but something about this song is really sticking with me. Aside from the fact that this is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs and one of the only songs I really knew of his before taking this class, I think that some of the lyrics relate to my situation. "Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me / I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" To me that is saying that I'm not sleepy, I'm ready for the next place in my life but I still have no place to go, besides back home to Syracuse which is definitely not my ideal spot to begin my 20's in, but I want an opportunity from the Tambourine man. Another part of the song that I feel that I relate to is:

"My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it"

In the first two lines it is like I am lost and that I am have yet to really feel the excitement of graduating and moving on to bigger and better things, but once the opportunity is given to me I'll be ready to go literally anywhere in the nation, maybe even the world.

 I definitely know that Bob Dylan hasn't created this song because he is graduating college and doesn't have a clue where he is going to be in the following year, but I believe that all songs are meant to be interpreted the exact way that artists made them themselves. I think that people love certain songs because they can relate to them and to hear them in their head while thinking about certain situations. That is one thing I think I have learned from this class, although I haven't loved or even liked some of the songs that have been played, I feel that for the ones that I do happen to like they have related to my life and situations in some small way.