My time at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is finally coming to an end.  Not immediately but the light is securely at the end of the tunnel and I can see it.  I can see the light and I want to run to it as fast as I can.

In order to secure that dream and keep myself on track, I’m instituting Operation Finish Line.

"Operation Finish Line": Job Fairs board by wynlok, on Flickr

What is Operation Finish Line?

Operation Finish Line is a concept that I’m stealing from Gilmore Girls.  In their last semester at Yale Paris creates Operation Finish Line: a very organized and very ambitious set of academic goals and deadlines, activities, volunteer opportunities, job fairs, and other things that Paris feels that she and Rory should do before they leave Yale.  You can see some of the madness scrawled on white boards in the screen capture above.

I’m going to create an Operation Finish Line mission for myself.  If I buckle down (whoa, classic phrase!) and stick to the plan I can be graduating next May, a mere 11 months from now.  But I know that it’s going to take dedication in addition to time, effort, and organization so I’m going to borrow a page from the Paris Geller book of Crazy.  Over the next week I’ll start drafting an 11 month long Operation Finish Line plan that I’ll use to help guide me to the end of my time as a college student.  I’ve never felt more ready to finish my college career and I want to arm myself with anything that could help me do that.

I hope that there will be a time in the future when I can jump around like Paris after she got accepted into multiple medical and law schools and shout “Thank you for participating in Operation Finish Line!”