Being a senior in college can be a lot of fun. You're 21, you have your major figured out, you know (kinda) what you want to do. Life is good for you. Except, when you go home for a weekend, and EVERYONE starts asking you the dreaded questions. The ones you don't worry about when you're with your friends. The questions about your future.
Here are 10 questions that I have been asked, and that you will be asked, and that you should be prepared to answer.
1. What are you doing once you graduate?
2. Do you have a job?
3. Where are you going to live?
4. Don't you know that is an expensive city?
5. Who are you dating?
6. If you're single, how are you going to have kids before you're 30?
7. Are you graduating on time?
8. Here, let me look up some jobs for you!! Won't this be fun?
9. You should really stay home. Won't you miss your family?
10. Are you too busy partying to go to class?
Here were my answers:
1. Working at a job, aka the whole reason I am in college....
2. No. If I did I would have told you when you asked what I'm doing post-grad.
3. Wherever I get a job...
4. Yes, I know Seattle, NYC, D.C. and all the other cities I want to live in are expensive. No, I am not worried, I will be fine.
5. No one. Because I don't want to and I also have no idea where I am going to be in two months.
6. Uh, well I don't want kids and if I did I wouldn't be having them on your timeline.
7. Yes, and if I wasn't that would be OK too.
8. No. It won't. Because I have been looking up jobs. I appreciate you wanting to help, but I've got this. If I need help I will ask.
9. Yes I am going to miss my family. But I also need to go experience the world. They understand, and they also will support me in whatever I do.
10. No. Just because I go to OU doesn't mean I spend every single day drinking. Please stop assuming that we have nothing better to do.
OK, so I didn't say those things exactly, I'm too worried about hurting people's feelings. But I was asked those questions, and you might be asked the same thing. Just know, that even though you're going to be asked these things a million times, people are coming from a good place, even though it is more annoying than walking down Mill Street during Fest while sober.
