Tag: college
What Does College Graduation Really Mean?
American society likes to make a big deal out of college graduation but, in reality, it’s little more than a meaningless coming of age ritual. People go through K-12, ship off to college, graduate, and then they’re “adults.” They can get real jobs and move out…except, they can’t get jobs because there aren’t any, at [...]
Graduating College Sucks
I used to get sad at the fact that other people were graduating college. I wanted to believe for as long as I could that I just graduated and no one else could possibly be younger than me in the workplace. I longed to be back at college, enjoying senior week, partying the night away [...]
Wait, I Graduated A Year Ago?!
Well, it’s official. I have just experienced the fastest year of my life. I cannot even begin to fathom that I actually graduated college a year ago already. Like, WHAT?! See, the lapse of time works a little differently when you are working than when you are in school. There are not quarters or semesters [...]
True Life: I Skipped My College Graduation
By the time I was about to finish college, I had been to enough graduation ceremonies in my life to know I didn’t want to attend another. I grew up the youngest of five children. Thus, from birth, I had to attend elementary school graduations, middle school graduations, high school graduations, and college graduations for [...]
Manly Monday: Post Graduate Plans
May, for many of us at FTS, is just another few weeks of work, sprinkled with nice weather and the knowledge that summer (and a usually more relaxed workplace) will be here soon. For many undergraduates, it’s the end of the school year, while for a small population of them…it’s the end of their whole [...]