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The Graduate’s Survival Guide
Responding to the pesky question: What are you going to do with your life?
Congratulations, you have completed your final four years of education. The extra few years that were not legally required of you, but you did it anyway. Or as I like to call them — the gap years. In other words, a four-year mission where I eventually obtain the piece of paper presenting my BA in communications. Now it is time to recognize this accomplishment and reward myself with a much deserved cookie.
But now that the gap years are over, it’s time to figure out your real life’s mission.
When I took that final stroll across the stage, I didn’t feel the way I was probably supposed to. All proud and teary eyed, trying to recall my greatest moment. All I could think about was how I would be late for work if this went on any longer. I was also thinking about the food I was going to get myself after this (I was starving).
For me, graduation was just another day. It was something I almost skipped so I could catch a few more z’s before work. But my hands were tied. Apple duct-taped in mouth and all, I was going. If not, my mother was going to grill me — and not the ham and cheese sandwich I was craving.
Now as someone who is not a life coach or counselor, I am under no position to give professional advice. I am simply a…
