Much to my stalling and dreading spells, today I finally logged in on my university account and checked my transcript to confirm that I was indeed a degree holder...
Here's what it read:
"Requirements completed for Degree of Bachelor of Science"
Wow it REALLY is official. No more excuses for weird paranoid thinking episodes and inhibitions. All I have to do now is wait for the actual "Paper" to arrive in the mail. My uni had to use a dummy version for everyone at the very day of the Commencement for fear that the graduates would lose it some place had they given out the real one.
The university operates on a state budget; it does not have the luxury to splurge on fancy schmancy parchment papers and major printing sprees...
Time to break free from the unnecessary anxiety. This is it. It's time.