01.02.07
Changes
Maybe the depressing movie I just watched has something to do with it, but I’m in a rather pensive mood. I’m a senior in college now, and the thing I’ve longed for and dreaded for the last few years is at hand. One can only cower in the ivied halls of Academia for so long before the real world comes to get one. Though I’ve been plotting my escape and wondering what the future holds since freshman year, I can’t help but second guess my eagerness as my friends begin to go on their merry ways and discover that college was a bit easier and more fun than real life. I fear the inevitable scattering of my closest friends to the farthest reaches of the world. When I graduate in December and find a real job and a place to live, will I be disappointed, scared, excited, relieved, or all of the above at the same time? When New Year’s Day of 2008 rolls around, where will I be, and what will I be thinking of?