As my final semester of college is beginning I’m overwhelmed with all kinds of feelings. The end of college for me is bittersweet. On one hand, I’m thrilled to finally be done sitting in a classroom and out into the real world, and on the other, I’m terrified for what adulthood has in store for me in the real world. I’ve spent eighteen years of my life in school.

So what’s next for me?

That’s just one of the questions and thoughts running through my head as this semester begins. We spend so much of our time in school preparing for graduation and once the day is here the future is terrifying for many of us. We hear stories from other people post graduation still searching for jobs in their field of study for many months after graduation.

I think about what if I never find a job that uses this degree that I spent so many years working towards? What if it was all for nothing? Or what if I do get a job in my field but end up not liking it like I thought I would? What if I’m not happy with the degree I chose to get in the end

I am also very excited to be done with school just for the sake of being done with homework, sitting in class, group projects, and the nightmare of campus parking. I won’t have anymore three a.m study sessions or parking tickets. That will all be in the past for me, finally.

One thing I do know is, it’s going to be OK. It’s OK to be unsure of my future after graduation. So, for now, I’m going to enjoy my final semester! I’m not going to spend the semester driving myself crazy with worry and fear for the future and thinking of all the what if’s that could happen, because in the end, it will all be OK, I know it will!