With the holidays approaching, college students everywhere are facing their fears of going home and being asked the dreaded questions:

"Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?" followed by, "Well why not? You're such a catch!"

"How are your grades?"

"What is this sorority thing you're doing - what are those gang signs?"

"Why do you keep asking me to 'like' that photo of some random girl I don't know for a contest?"

"Are you getting enough sleep? Do you go out every night?"

"How's your eating schedule? Have you been making time to go to the gym?"

"What's your major?"

"What exactly are you going to do with that?"

And the ever popular question that I, personally, have been receiving the past six months: What are you going to do after graduation?

Attention family, extended family, family friends, etc.: Stop asking college kids about the future.

Honestly, at 22 years of age, I'm still young. I can't even imagine how those freshmen coming home for the first time in a few weeks are going to handle it! I have no idea what I want to do in the future, heck, my biggest decision right now is what necklace to wear with my formal dress. I don't know what I want to do in the future, and I don't think I'm supposed to. I'm graduating. With a degree. In English. No, I am not going to be a doctor, lawyer, or nurse. I might be a teacher, I might gear towards journalism, my opportunities are endless. But that's my decision. We, as college students, know our families want the best for us and for us to be successful. But we made it this far on our own, learning about life and the real world, just trying to graduate. I think we can handle it.

As if the stress wasn't already built up thinking about Post-Grad life, every time somebody asks, I seriously consider finding the nearest bottle of Pinot Grigio and turning my phone off.

Although I love that there are so many people who care about me, my future, and my future success, I think I speak for college students everywhere when I say:

Please stop asking me about my future!