This is a guest post by OrlandoScene’s Kaitlyn Pleasants
Dear Class of 2015,
Going into your last year of college is scary. With less than a year left before you finally turn the overly decorated tassel on your cap, you are probably breaking out in hives picturing your final year of higher education.
It’s not feeling like senior year of high school where you just didn’t care anymore and think it’s cool to not give two fucks about doing schoolwork. In fact, it’s the exact opposite; your butthole clenches each and every time you think about the fateful May day when “real life” will begin.
But what if you don’t know what to do with your life after college?
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Although it’s a hard question to really ask yourself after you’ve spent four years progressing through the path that you chose for yourself (and mom and dad have already started the 21 questions game), it’s completely normal to feel a little uneasy.
If you look at the average 22-year-old brain, you’ll find that it’s not particularly wise or filled with life lessons (not to say it isn’t full of weird yet valuable experiences). By human nature’s standards, we’re still idiots and we’re still learning.
I implore those of you who are scared and don’t know what to do to keep doing your thing until you figure out what makes you passionate. (Yes, I said it.) If that means grad school, getting an entry-level “bitch job,” just working to pay your bills or something entirely different, so be it.
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Weed out what you don’t like. Think about what you did in college. Remember that one time when you were a business major for about five seconds? Now you laugh every time you look back on it. You know now that you will never understand economic models (and don’t care to, ever). You’ll never worry about ever making that your career. It’s the same concept.
Dabble in things you’ve thought of doing but were too shy or prideful to do. Start a business. Sell cars like a slimeball. Travel. Tour with a band. Fail. Fail some more. And then after that, fail again. Now is (still) the time to get it out of the way until you’re actually locked in a lifelong career.
The bottom line is that we need to stop believing that we have to have everything “figured out” by the time we finish school.
The average human life is 81 years for women and 76 years for men. Take that number and subtract your current age. Guess what? You. Have. Time.
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I’m not saying that it’s okay to become a bum after college. I’m saying that your post-college state (even something completely unrelated to your degree that puts dinner on the table and pays your bills) won’t be definitive of your entire future. And fuck anyone who tries to judge you for it.
Tell yourself you have your back and that things are going to be okay. But also understand that, yes, you will probably be poor for the next few years, just like everyone else. Stay proactive in finding what it is that you really want to do. Remember that you don’t have to worry about answering to anyone about it.
As you spend your last month and a half of whatever you’re doing — being overseas, completing an internship or taking it easy — remember that it’s okay to not have everything mapped out all at once. So ease up a little bit, and enjoy your last year of being at a place where work and play still coexist.
And for fuck’s sakes, have a beer.
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