What happens after May 2008? What will become of me? Why do people ask this question constantly? Should I answer them truthfully? Or give them something unexpected? What will you do after college? This question haunts me. Impulsively I want to scream the cliches that every undergraduate senior says: Grad school applications, GREs, real world jobs, internships, interviews, resumes, career-building blah blah blah. I feel angry when people ask me this question. How on earth am I supposed to know? I can't look into a crystal ball and predict the future. The questioner's guess is as good as mine. How dare they ask me this question. Why should I devulge my deepest dreams/ambitions to them? Who are they to question my inner most desires? What gives them the right? Them. Who is this "them" I refer to? Them is the relatives you never see at holidays, and only read about in occasional season's greeting Halmark cards, and them is the friends of your parents, old teachers, and acquaintances you've shared classes when you run
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