A lot of my high school friends will be graduating college this year. I, however, will keep right on going with my 5-year program. Although I don’t know the situations of most of my ol’ chums, I feel like I have the most real-world experience having gone through 2 jobs already. I’d like to know what is on everyone’s mind who will be graduating this spring. Does anyone know what they want to do right out of college? Any job offers? More college? Perhaps going back home?
I hope nobody is freaking out. It is a huge point in life – the end of formal learning and the beginning of application of accumulated knowledge. That’s probably a bad analogy; knowledge is applied all the time in college, and jobs always offer more learning opportunities. So really, maybe it isn’t as big a deal as it appears.
My situation seems reasonable so far – one term of classes, two terms of co-op, then three final terms of classes and I’m out. My plan – get an all together different job for my third co-op, stay on track with my class load and make it through. As for post-college, I hope I will have a strong relationship with my final co-op (or at least keep my current relationship with PJM) so that I can continue working right out of college and pay off my expenses.
Sadly, I still don’t have any grand, splendid plans for the rest of my life. I’ve got vague dreams for a family and a home, but nothing solid. That doesn’t bother me too much though because life wasn’t meant to be completely structured. I don’t even know what my situation will be by the time I’m out of here, and it’s hard to plan around the unknown. I’ll just keep letting things come as they go and keep making the best of everything I can.