MSNBC - Washington a No. 1 seed? Yes

I can't be more proud of the University of Washington Husky Basketball team, who I had an opportunity to watch play live a couple of times this year. Winning the Pac-10 tourney was fantastic, but getting the number one seed in the Albuquerque circuit was unexpected. The Huskies held a rally at Hec-Ed Pavillion to watch the event live, and the place just erupted when the announcement came across the wire.

What's very interesting is that the Huskies could get a chance to play against Gonzaga (number 3 seed) before the Final Four, if both teams advance as they are expected to. That's a matchup that would be about as highly anticipated as our annual Apple Cup.

I'm not much of a sports fan, but I've been finding myself more interested in following the Dawgs since it's possible that I could be attending the UW starting this fall. We'll see how the application process goes.

I never thought I'd be this close to having a degree, much less possibly going to as renown a school as the University of Washington. My family didn't have a lot of money when I was younger, and I didn't really have the work ethic to have been a successful student when I graduated high school. As much as I may now regret having put off my education as long as I have, I'm somewhat thankful at the same time, because I have certainly learned more now that I'm ready to learn.

I'm a quarter from finishing my Associate's Degree at Cascadia, and I'm very much looking forward to finally being able to say that I'm a college graduate, but I'm not going to consider myself finished until I have my Bachelor's from the UW. I just have to figure out how to pay for it ...