I have reached the end of my time on The Horizon and at IU Southeast. It still really has not hit me that I will be leaving, and it is even harder to fathom that I will soon obtain my bachelor’s degree in journalism. As I write this, my 9-year-old son is sleeping. I think how innocent and oblivious he is to the life he has ahead of him.

Well, the time has finally come. It has taken six years, but I will be graduating at the end of this semester with a bachelor of arts in journalism. The journey to get to this point has not been easy, nor traditional.