College. College is great-- wonderful, really. Well, depending on your major. There are two types of people in college. First are the students who want to stay a college student forever. These kids will take pointless classes, 12 credits a semester, or pick up a minor just to stay. For these students, college is all about the fun: all about the parties, the opposite sex, and the crazy experiences. In their eyes once you leave college everything is going downhill. Your social life. Your love life. Your “bill free” life. Pretty much all of the good things in your life that happen while in college are gone. Poof. Sorry. These kids want to stay in college for as long they possibly can.

Then comes the other kind of students. These students come in two types of categories. On one hand are the students who are in a horribly hard major. Most of their time in college is spent in the library, studying away. I mean, how can you have free time to go to parties every weekend, when you have to stay in your program, or even get into your program? If you don’t get top grades, they can drop you just like that. All your hard work for nothing, your dream career gone. So you study. You do what you have to do in your four years of college, so after you can pursue the career you always wanted. Now here comes the other category. The kids that simply hate school, and it’s just not for them. No matter how hard they try they can’t sit down to study; they don’t understand the information. But they know, they know they have to get an education, or maybe they know if they don’t their parents will cut them off. All they know is they have to get through these four years as quickly as they can, so they can do whatever the hell they want after they graduate.

Now here comes the thing that all of these different kinds of students have in common their senior year second semester. A large percentage hate, and I mean hate, when they constantly are asked, “So, what are your plans after you graduate?” This is the question that is asked anywhere between one and five times per day. Once someone finds out you graduate soon that’s the next question that pops out of their mouth. Always. So here I am, finally finished college, happy/sad about it, and now I have to take what I learned to get a real job? Or maybe I have to go to graduate school? I don’t know. Everyone keeps asking the same question, but I don’t even know myself. What am I going to do? It’s a constant reminder of the huge change one experiences once they graduate. You know, I’ve looked for jobs. I’ve personally applied to approximately 25 different jobs all over the country, but you know what the sad part is? I need experience. Experience where? I just got out of college. One of the hardest questions that one gets asked is, “So, what are your plans after you graduate?” Nothing prepares you for it, because you went to school, got a degree, but now what? What do you do with it? That’s the hardest part. So when it seems like everyone is asking you that dreaded question, just respond with what I always say: “Well, life’s a mystery, and so I’ll just be going with the flow till I figure it out.”