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Thoughts Of A Graduating College Senior

What now?

Treasure Guthrie
Oct 13, 2015
University of Wisconsin La Crosse
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Thoughts Of A Graduating College Senior

1. Wait, what?

But didn't I just start college like last year? Nope, no you didn't. You are now older than the majority of students on your campus. Congratulations, grandpa.

2. I feel like I haven't learned anything!

Or at least how to apply what I have learned. Seriously, who is going to hire me?

3. Does this make me a real adult?

I'm going to have to buy a house and get married and have kids. Gross.

4. I'm not ready for this kind of responsibility

How do I pay my bills? How do I balance my checkbook? Where am I going to live? I don't know how to adult! Please don't make me do this....

5. I don't know how to not study.

You have only spent the last 16 years of your life being a student, so what now?

6. I'm not ready to start my career.


No, I'm too young and innocent for this; please make it go away.

7. Where did all of these student loans come from?

And you start paying off your debt for the rest of your life... now.

8. Should I just travel for a year?


I'm already going to be in debt until I die, so why not?

9. Can I take my friends with me?

Seriously, how can I say goodbye to the people who helped shape me into who I am today? I have only known them for four years, but it feels like a lifetime. Can't they just come with me?

10. I am really going to miss this place.

I have called this place home for the last few years. I have a life and friends that feel more like family. And now it is gone. Excuse me while I go cry in a corner.

Unless you will be going onto graduate school like me; then you can avoid adulthood for a little while longer.

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