Quietly walked away

Today was my last day at Cornell. Besides my stint in undergrad, this was the longest I had stayed in any one place for work or school in the past several years. Initially, when I arrived I was like how did I decide to come to such a podunk town. But in the past year, in particular the town grew on me. And I really enjoyed the University atmosphere. There was a big snowstorm today and many people didn't show to work or left early, so it was very quiet. When I finally logged off my computer for the last time, it finally hit me that my time here was over. But it was time to move on in my career, so here I go to grad school to earn that PhD I seemed destined to get. I just took the long way around to get here.