Thank you every one for all of your replies. I knew others felt the way I do in my graduating class (nursing students), but it is nice to know that it's a common feeling to feel (for any one) at graduation. I'm trying to enjoy my time off and take things slow. I made it through both the wedding and the graduation. I'm thinking of taking a year off of school - for multiple reasons. I've been accepted into my school's BSN program (I only have my ASN, which is enough to become an RN). Mom has terminal cancer, trying to ease my way into married life, can't afford out of state tuition on my own, slghtly burned out from two years of nursing school etc. etc. I never slow myself down enough to think of myself (it's how I deal with things... I guess by replacing other smaller mundane problems and tasks with the bigger things I don't want to think about)... but maybe it's time. After my rough high school years I always told myself that I would get a professional massage after graduation - here I am four years later and still no massage... even when I have had them offered to me. My mother-in-law is wanting to have a girls night with me, so she is taking me to a spa. She prefers facials, so that is what I am doing. I think it will be nice to evaluate things like this over the next year without thinking about school.

Rambling...

Graduation gives all of us so much to think about. It's been four years since we've had to think about starting over - just when we got into the swing of things it seems, too. The real world is a big and scary place, but maybe we don't give our college experience enough credit... maybe we don't know it yet, but it really does seem like a helpful stepping stone into the real world. Maybe it really has prepared us for what comes afterwards?

Good luck every one!!!! Sky had some good advice (that helped me a lot). Take it slow and delegate. You guys are amazing!