Yea! Graduation!!! ... Now What?

It's so close, you can just about taste it. Four (and a half) years in the making, finally, the white sheet is about to be snatched away to reveal the new you. You're excited about it. Your parents are VERY excited about it. Grandma is... let's call her "ecstatic" and your Professors can't help but smile when you pass them by in the corridors that you once thought were "big" and confusingly arranged.

But, now you, a SENIOR, have conquered! No longer are you the freshman walking (alone) to ENG 101H with a backpack neatly lined with assorted colors of pocket folders and notebooks, a spare copy of your schedule clinched in your almost visibly trembling hand, while nervously scanning the 3-digits etched above what seems to be an endless row of classroom doors. Now, you've gotten so good at college life, you can visualize a classroom as soon as you hear the room number. Not only that, you know the fastest way to (cut through the construction to) get there so you won't have to forfeit precious minutes of beauty rest, ahem, "mind relaxation" to be on time.

But are you REALLY ready to leave the campus that has been your home, of sorts, for the past several years? The campus on which it seems everybody knows your name? The campus you've become accustomed to and know so well? Before you answer, consider this.

Graduating from college marks the beginning of a new life with new rules. Yes, you will have to start "the process" all over again. You will become that freshman who just interrupted your pizza break to ask for directions to his ENG 101 class when (hopefully) you find employment after graduation.

This post is not to scare anyone into becoming professional college students who never graduate. Not at all. It is to help those who may be nearing graduation to have a healthy outlook on it. You may be a *rockstar* on campus now, but once your name echoes through the Wolstein Center at commencement, it's back to step one on the rungs of life's ladder. You'll be the newbie once again.

Below this post, there's a link that tells how many comments have been posted by readers like you. Here's what I ask of you, dear reader: Click that link and then post a comment that gives your advice to graduating seniors (like me)! Or, if you prefer, give some advice to the perplexed freshmen who are still trying to figure out what their CampusNet password is {LOL}. If nothing else, post a comment that lets the weekly blogger know they aren't talking (or is it typing?) to themselves {LOL}.

Matt K.

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