Unlike most college students, I have yet to start classes and it is the third week in January (guess that's good planning on my part to sign up for a class on Monday and two on Thursday). Tomorrow I will embark on my final journey as a college undergrad, and it is a weird feeling. Grad school is definitely in my future, but the fact that the "best years of my life" are slowly fading into the past is daunting.
In just four short months, I will be walking across a stage (the location of that stage is TBD - thanks ODU) with a diploma in my hand and the world ahead of me. I'm faced with finding my first job, asking questions like, "Will this insurance plan include dental?," deciding whether to brave living on my own or stick with a roommate, amonst many other decisions.
During my last interview, they asked me how I felt being a student graduating in May during the middle of a recession. This question is probably becoming a standard for most graduating seniors and most would say that they're worried, but for me, I answered it with the honest truth: you have to be positive. If you're not going into the search with a positive mind, chances are you're not going to be one of those students with a job right out of school. Yes, so I've read The Secret, (great book if you haven't read it), but I believe that if you think positively, good things will follow and visa versa.
So, as I go into my last semester as a college undergrad, I'm thinking the same way: positively.
More to come as the semester continues.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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