don't look back, you might turn to stone
A few days ago my boss asked me to forward an e-mail address to someone who called him asking for contact information. I noticed the person who asked for the contact info was from NU, so I ended the e-mail with my name and (Medill 2004) so she'd know I graduated from NU last year.
She wrote back:
Thank-you for sending the e-mail address to me. I see you just graduated
from Medill. Do you have any tips on how to get through?
Tips on how to get through? What does that mean? I barely made it myself. I resisted the urge to write back, "Yes, here is how to get through. Wake up every day and smile. Kneel at the foot of your bed and say a prayer, thanking everything that is holy that you can wake up at 1 p.m., put on sweatpants and flip flops, sit in a chair for an hour half-listening to someone talk about something that would probably be really interesting if you weren't still drunk. Then you can go home and watch Sex and the City DVDs and wait for happy hour at the bar down the street, all while your parents exalt you to your relatives and society congratulates you for preparing so well for your promising future."
After some thought, I responded:
Tips on how to get through, hmm. I have just one: SLOWLY! Enjoy it. Before you know it, you'll be graduated and e-mailing NU students while thinking to yourself, "Hmm. Wonder if they'd like to trade places with me?" :)
Are you in Medill? What year are you? Hope midterms aren't getting you down. That's one good thing about being out: When you go home at night, you're done until 9 a.m. the next morning! Free to watch American Idol and the O.C. without large textbooks sending you menacing looks from the corner of your desk.
Oh, yeah, I'm the one who has it good.
She wrote back:
Thank-you for sending the e-mail address to me. I see you just graduated
from Medill. Do you have any tips on how to get through?
Tips on how to get through? What does that mean? I barely made it myself. I resisted the urge to write back, "Yes, here is how to get through. Wake up every day and smile. Kneel at the foot of your bed and say a prayer, thanking everything that is holy that you can wake up at 1 p.m., put on sweatpants and flip flops, sit in a chair for an hour half-listening to someone talk about something that would probably be really interesting if you weren't still drunk. Then you can go home and watch Sex and the City DVDs and wait for happy hour at the bar down the street, all while your parents exalt you to your relatives and society congratulates you for preparing so well for your promising future."
After some thought, I responded:
Tips on how to get through, hmm. I have just one: SLOWLY! Enjoy it. Before you know it, you'll be graduated and e-mailing NU students while thinking to yourself, "Hmm. Wonder if they'd like to trade places with me?" :)
Are you in Medill? What year are you? Hope midterms aren't getting you down. That's one good thing about being out: When you go home at night, you're done until 9 a.m. the next morning! Free to watch American Idol and the O.C. without large textbooks sending you menacing looks from the corner of your desk.
Oh, yeah, I'm the one who has it good.