If you\u2019re a senior, chances are you\u2019ve heard the following question: \u201cWhat are your plans for after graduation.\u201d Unless you\u2019re very good at planning, you also probably don\u2019t have an answer to that question.<\/p>\n
Or maybe it\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n
Either way, whenever I hear that question, I suddenly find myself breaking out into a cold sweat. It\u2019s not because I don\u2019t feel ready to say goodbye to Hood \u2013 despite my love for my college, I can feel myself reaching my end.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m ready for no more class and no more campus life. Ready to be an adult in the real world, doing whatever it is that real adult people do. It\u2019s just figuring out how to make it to that point that I\u2019m worried about.<\/p>\n
The problem is not having a plan, not knowing how long it will take for me to get a job, and not having an idea of what I am going to do with my life. While I have a vague concept of what I want to do \u2013 pretty simple, just writing \u2013 I\u2019m still pretty fuzzy on the particulars.<\/p>\n
In my defense, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m alone. \u201cI don\u2019t like to talk about it,\u201d said Gabrielle Cavalier, a senior at Hood. \u201cIt gives me great anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knowing that in a month I\u2019ll be an alum is a pretty hard pill to swallow. Even if you do know what your post-college life will look like, as lots of people who are better than myself at planning probably do, I imagine that it\u2019s still at least a little terrifying.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are parts of the upcoming graduation festivities that I\u2019m happy about. I\u2019m excited to take my last final, and to attend Pub Crawl and senior week. I am excited to know that I am done with classes, at least until grad school, and to prepare my cap and spend some time with friends. I\u2019m ready for all the fun time.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s where my excitement ends.<\/p>\n
I know that, eventually, I will figure out what I am going to do with my life. I will have a job and a place to live, and I\u2019ll be set. But being thrown out into the world, not having another semester to go back to in the fall, is pretty scary. It\u2019s kind of terrifying not knowing where exactly you\u2019re going to be in a couple months, or a year. And the closer we get to graduation, the closer I get to the unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"