It has come to the end of my years as a college student. Or, more accurately (as I am reminded daily by our struggling job market and rising qualification expectations), as an undergraduate experience.
As usual, I didn't actually commit my life to blog history, and I'm sure all of you are suffering greatly for that. To sum up the last few months - school is idiotic, it does not prepare you for the actual skills needed to land a job. Even if that job relates to what you're studying. Newsflash, narcissistic professor: interesting, exciting job opportunities and their employers don't care if I know the definition of historical materialism. They care about whether I have organized an event, asked someone for a donation, or worked with Excel.
So shut up.
And now you will, because I wipe my hands of you.
And yet, at the same time, I can already feel the wistful look back towards those years, when I lived in a world of hastily written papers, test frustration (okay, not really - tests are the easy part for me), and a relatively carefree life. Health insurance? College AND parents covering it. Living? Taken care of. Money? I'm in school, I don't deal with that.
And even though the classes were largely useless and time-consuming, I was used to them. I knew what to expect, and I was good at it.
That is what is both exciting and frightening about the future. I get to explore further - I get to burst beyond the veil that school holds in front of the real world and find out what real people, not professors, are doing. How government, policy, non-profits, people, towns, everything works. What really goes on. But at the same time, I am out of my element. An overnight (yet written well enough to merit an A) paper will not be the answer, and it will not protect me from the pressing questions of money, health insurance, and the like.
Still, the possibilities are many and I look forward to the unknown in a way I haven't before. Oh future! How you tease me so. Well, to end on a cheesy note, I look forward to meeting you and making the most out of the time I have.
