LA term preview day

we went downtown today to preview what we're doing next semester.
they showed us our classrooms in a huge slick office building.
we walked around and talked with people that are currently in the program.
and as i was sitting in a back alley coffee shop i realized that this is my life now. that the bubble is gone.
that next semester they are turning us loose in LA. we are going to take the subway by ourselves, and work jobs with real bosses and go to class and go to lunch and go home.
we will not belong to APU, we will not belong to our parents, we will belong to ourselves.
it's daunting and a little strange, but i am not worried about its coming.
this is how it works-
we move away, we learn about the world, we grow up.
it's disquieting and a little melancholy but it's rising like the sun on the edge of my horizon.