I always wondered why people graduating college went from being super excited to be done, to super stressed out. After watching my best friends graduate I saw a lot of things that I needed to prepare for. I saw life start to hit my friends and some of their friends around them. It showed me I need to get ready for the adult life after school.
1. Getting family together
I thought this would be the easy part, but keeping up with who comes in town when and who is coming and not coming is crazy. There are so many things to plan for like the family dinner. They goal is to make everyone happy and have a good weekend celebrating but that does not always happen.
2. Parents getting emotional
Even though I have not graduated yet, my parents are already talking about how fast time flew by. Let us just say all childhood pictures come out during the time leading up to graduation and even during. Be prepared to hide any photos that you do not want anyone to see.
3. All the meetings
There are so many meetings just to tell you over and over that you are graduating. These meetings become old and seem to take forever. That takes time out of your eating schedule so if possible take food with you to every meeting and a big drink.
4. Finding the perfect outfit
Now this is mostly for the girls out there. This may not seem like a big deal but leading up to graduation it all of the sudden becomes a huge deal. By that time it is hard to find anything you want. Also have two outfits at the ready just for weather purposes, because you never know if it’s going to be warm or cold.
5. Be organized
I have seen that when a friend of mine was not organized he had no idea what was even going on the week of his graduation and that added a lot of stress on him and his parents. That made things confusing and chaotic.
6. Worrying about being an adult
This is when you have to make sure things are together for getting a job. Some people go right into a job right out of school and others are not as lucky. This is a huge stressor to any student graduating, because this is when you go into the world on your own. For those not as lucky to have a job right out of school it becomes hard and this is the big fear for all of those graduating.
7. Good times
Through all of the craziness, this will be an amazing time. This is the last time you are on campus, and the last time you will take classes unless you go back for your masters. Even then you will not have the same kind of experience that you had when you were there for your bachelors. This is the time when you look back to the crazy times you have had during freshmen year. Actually the crazy times you had every year. You will look back to all the people you have met and the great friends you now have. The sad part is that you all won’t be in the same area or on campus together. You will be happy to finally be done with school but you will be sad that the years of craziness will be over.
