To Those Starting Classes Instead Of Celebrating Graduation This Summer
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To Those Starting Classes Instead Of Celebrating Graduation This Summer

I mean, who actually wants to enter the real world?

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To Those Starting Classes Instead Of Celebrating Graduation This Summer
@usouthflorida

A few weeks ago, my friends and others were receiving their diplomas, taking grad pictures and just overall celebrating. I was finishing exams and looking for textbooks for my next semester. Even though I feel like I’m the only one who is taking classes instead of experiencing my freedom, I know that I am not, even one of my friends is still taking classes with me. But that still doesn’t stop the peg of jealousy that I felt, though it was silly.

I wanted to be taking those photos, walking in graduation and finally starting my life.

But I am just doing all that a few semesters later, and that’s OK.

I did a complete one-eighty major change and am still standing here to finish it, so I would say that is okay. I went from biology and claiming that I was going to be a doctor, to finance and business. I even am considering law school or an MBA program.

I am the number example of not knowing what you want to do when you’re 18 and then finally finding your place.

I know that I am not the only person that has ever happened to and there are thousands of kids just like me, taking that extra year or extra few years to finish their schooling. And that is okay, it’s actually more common than finishing on time now.

I just know all the super smart people who are graduating on time or early, so go me, the just average one. Watching all of my friends graduate was hard, but I realized that just because I’m taking a little longer doesn’t make me a failure or anything like that. And it doesn’t make you one either, we’re just taking our time to start out lives.

I mean, the real world is scary, so why rush to enter it?

Two more semesters and that will be me, I’ll be taking the pictures and starting my life. But first I should cherish this little time I have left and graduating with my best friend will make it even more worth it. So, remember it just takes a little longer and it doesn’t make us any less ready for the real world as everyone else. And above cherish the time that you have left and time that you have spent, nothing compare to college life.

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