Part 1: The cliche pre-graduation nerves & post-grad uncertainty.

My story begins here, today: I am less than three weeks away from graduating college and haven't the slightest idea where the next year will take me. That's a lie, up until today I had (what I thought were solid) plans to travel in France. It seemed (and still does seem) ideal and romantic to jump on a plane with a one-way ticket to Paris and eat croissants, parle Francais and live the life of an ex-patriot for a couple months. The job market has been less than welcoming, which has served as a cold slap of reality since I had assumed my many internships would allow me to sidestep any job search trouble. So the solution was simple--I would grab life by the horns, bon voyage over to France and travel abroad till early summer when I would then come back and ideally (maybe unrealistically) have a job. Of course, the only predictable thing about life is how unpredictable it can be and a financial wrench has been thrown in my France plans; but fear not currently non-existent blog followers, I do not give up on dreams that easily.

So now for the cliched part: I have taken for granted the predictability of the past four years of college. How reassuring it once was to know that after summer was fall semester, after fall semester was winter break and after that was spring semester and summer again. Every new season found me with my friends, my college campus and the world I built for myself here...every new season except this next one. Over the next 3 weeks I will watch as my world here at college slowly deconstructs; to say I am feeling the sting of nostalgia is a gross understatement. But let me say, that I have never been one for predictability and as much as I cringe when life throws an un-welcomed curveball, there does remain a sense of excitement of not knowing what is behind the next turn.

I hope that this blog can transform from confessions of a post-grad to perhaps the French travel adventures of a new graduate; I guess we'll see what's next because for the first time in a long time I have no idea.

So stay tuned!

--the Post-Grad