THE LIFE OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENT AND GRADUATES...

     i REMEMBER IT WAS JUNE OF 2005 AND i CAME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD FOR MY ORIENTATION. THE GUEST SPEAKER ADVICED US TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE TIME WE HAD AHEAD OF US TO EXPLORE OURSELVES, MAKE MISTAKES, AND HAVE FUN BECAUSE WE WOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER THOSE YEARS AS "THE BEST 4 YEARS OF OUR LIVES"... WHILE AT THE TIME i DISAGREED WITH HER, i FIND MYSELF UNDERSTANDING WHAT SHE MEANT MORE AND MORE AS i REALIZE THAT i HAVENT YET FOUND A JOB, MY BILLS ARE OVERDUE AND i WILL SOON HAVE TO BEGIN MAKING STUDENT LOAN PAYMENTS.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT i DO NOT HAVE A PLAN, THIS IS NOT JUST MY SUMMER VACATION BECAUSE i WILL NOT BE RETURNING TO SCHOOL IN THE FALL...THIS IS IT GUYS AND WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT  HAVING ALL THIS FREEDOM AND "POSSIBILITIES" WOULD STRESS ME OUT EVEN MORE THAN FINALS. PERHAPS OLDER PEOPLE OLD ON TO THEIR MEMORIES OF COLLEGE BECAUSE IT SYMBOLIZES A TIME IN THEIR LIVES WHEN THEY WERE MORE CAREFREE AND HAD LESS RESPONSIBILITIES, HOWEVER i AM NOT READY TO ADOPT THE IDEA THAT MY BEST YEARS ARE BEHIND ME...SO BRING IT ON, TIME TO START LIVING....EVEN IF i AM STARTING OUT A LITTLE ROUGH