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I had an amazing New Year's Eve in New York City. Everything made me happy last night (especially after the wine and champagne) from bumping into Sara and Justin on the platform on the way in, to bumping into Jesse at the track for the way home. I loved the blue noisemaker and the half-price subway and watching Abby and Christina doll up and the yummy pasta in Little Italy and how the snow stopped and having a real midnight toast and coming home with a purple balloon. Thanks Ab for making it happen.
It's Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhsix.
Seniors, isn't it scary that it's the year we're graduating? It's such a big transition coming up. It's ridiculous how such a big change is 5 months away but most of us still don't know what will be around the corner.
I remember talking with someone about how, growing up, you see college as the be-all-end-all of life. We did look forward to high school, where we would gain a lot of privileges and responsibilities, but it is so obviously only building up to college - the "best" four years of your life. Starting in 9th grade, you imagine yourself as a senior in high school, (at SHS) doing chalking and Halloween breakfast with coordinated costumes and chanting '02 at Gridlock and prom and senior class play. But more often you think about putting that college decal on your car and which one it will be. You think about how your activities will appear to a college admissions officer and buying a college sweatshirt once you're accepted to show your pride. You think about which of your friends you'll keep in touch with once you're living in dorms hundreds of miles apart. You think about college applications and those dreaded essays.
Never do you ever picture yourself applying to jobs.
[I Wish I Could Go Back to College from Ave Q just came up on iTunes out of near-4000 songs on my computer. Appropriate. Too bad it makes me sad already.]
As I was saying, never do you think about paying your own rent and bills and your friends getting married and health insurance and getting up early for commuting and life in the later-20s. It exists, folks, and when you finally face it, it seems to come out of nowhere. I think it's partly because the whole college-centric young adulthood is leaving us unprepared for the long term. So many seniors are lost when it comes to what they want to do post-college because after picking our university and major we think we have it set. It's a little telling that everyone is either looking forward to or nostalgic for college. It's so weird to be facing my last semester at Tufts because I never thought about life beyond 2006.
May the new year be a good year for us.
It's Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhsix.
Seniors, isn't it scary that it's the year we're graduating? It's such a big transition coming up. It's ridiculous how such a big change is 5 months away but most of us still don't know what will be around the corner.
I remember talking with someone about how, growing up, you see college as the be-all-end-all of life. We did look forward to high school, where we would gain a lot of privileges and responsibilities, but it is so obviously only building up to college - the "best" four years of your life. Starting in 9th grade, you imagine yourself as a senior in high school, (at SHS) doing chalking and Halloween breakfast with coordinated costumes and chanting '02 at Gridlock and prom and senior class play. But more often you think about putting that college decal on your car and which one it will be. You think about how your activities will appear to a college admissions officer and buying a college sweatshirt once you're accepted to show your pride. You think about which of your friends you'll keep in touch with once you're living in dorms hundreds of miles apart. You think about college applications and those dreaded essays.
Never do you ever picture yourself applying to jobs.
[I Wish I Could Go Back to College from Ave Q just came up on iTunes out of near-4000 songs on my computer. Appropriate. Too bad it makes me sad already.]
As I was saying, never do you think about paying your own rent and bills and your friends getting married and health insurance and getting up early for commuting and life in the later-20s. It exists, folks, and when you finally face it, it seems to come out of nowhere. I think it's partly because the whole college-centric young adulthood is leaving us unprepared for the long term. So many seniors are lost when it comes to what they want to do post-college because after picking our university and major we think we have it set. It's a little telling that everyone is either looking forward to or nostalgic for college. It's so weird to be facing my last semester at Tufts because I never thought about life beyond 2006.
May the new year be a good year for us.