{"id":7782,"date":"2024-04-06T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2024-04-06T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T03:08:15","slug":"graduation-jitters-and-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=7782","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Jitters and Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Mateo Biggs<\/em><\/p>\n

I know I should be vibrating with excitement about graduation– the home stretch! Yet\u2026as the date creeps closer and closer I only feel more and more anxious. The job market right now is a mess– and I feel so old saying that but everyone else around me seems to know what they are doing and they seem to have their lives together as well. I\u2019m lucky enough to have a place to live lined up after graduation but beyond that?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every professor seems excited for me to graduate too and that\u2019s so nice but it just further cements that this chapter of my life is almost over. I have made so many friends with many underclassmen and all the people I know who are graduating with me are scattered to the wind with their plans once we are done with college. Honestly, I\u2019m terrified to graduate. I\u2019m terrified to start paying off this mountain of student loan debt and I\u2019m just in a weird state of limbo where these nerves aren\u2019t just anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am excited, I\u2019ll be a first generation college graduate of my family and I\u2019ll be living with someone who\u2019s like a sibling to me, but sometimes as I doom scroll instagram at night, I wonder if I\u2019ve lived my life enough while at Roanoke College.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I understand that I\u2019m not the only one who feels this way either– plenty of my graduating friends also feel the way I do –but there\u2019s always those groups of people on campus who seem to have everything together. Their LinkedIn is absolutely full of job offers and they seem to be living their best life on social media (which I know is probably like 65% a lie sometimes).<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I\u2019m full of these anxieties and fears, I\u2019m generally also excited to start my next journey in life and see where this all goes. I can\u2019t wait to have my own place where I can decorate it how I want– and to cook meals in my own kitchen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s just some thought I\u2019ve been having as a graduating senior. I think these last couple weeks are just going to be the strongest I\u2019ll have to push myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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