The best is yet to come & babe won't it be fine
Hey it's Ahsante and it seems like once you graduate from college, you're supposed
to have your whole life figure out. Like you got a degree in divination or something.
Graduating from college feels like a pretty uncertain time in your life.
It isn't quite like jumping off a cliff, because you have got some idea,
but it's like venturing into the Amazon. It's exciting, it's unfamiliar territory.
You've got a map, that you've spent the last four or so years figuring out how to
use, you walked across the stage, they gave you
the map, But the Amazon is a jungle, it does what it
wants. Maybe you step into that first job, realize
the water is murky and come up with ringworm. You might start off thinking that you know
where you're going only to realize that you've been following somebody else's
smoke signals and you're completely lost. You may be able to dodge the jaguars and the
alligators and Sally Mae, but then slip on a a poison dart frog and fall into a pit of
taxes. I've never been to the Amazon, but I assume
it's similar to that. So in order that you may have a safe and non
infectious journey through these next couple years, here are 10 things that I wish I'd
known when I graduated college at Harvard.
There's all this pressure to have a job right when you graduate. But this is not Judge Judy,
you get to work on your own timeline. You will find a job eventually.
And many of your peers who have jobs now will be trying to leave them in a year.
Cause, ya know, ringworm is not cute. There's this idea that you graduate, find
a job, and then you're set, but you're actually going to have to do
some moving and experimenting to find what's right for you.
To 2015 Ahsante, You won't be settling down any time soon.
I know you love your independence, but there's no shame in living at home.
You're in a rush to be on your own but, you're blessed with supportive parents so
you really don't need to be. And I mean, free food amirite.
You don't even treck across campus and listen to a presentation you didn't even like just
to get what turns out to be lukewarm plain cheese pizza.
Delicious and often homemade free food right downstairs. Embrace it.
Girl, I know it seems like everyone is moving to NY or LA, but some people aren't and
you shouldn't feel pressure to do so. A lot of your friends will actually stay in
the same town for a while after school. And you'll actually grow to like Boston
in the summer. You know once those April snow showers clears
out and it actually warms up. The two months of summer, it's nice.
College gives you an unrealistic expectation of what friendship should be like.
No you won't always see all of your friends all of the time, but you'll keep in touch
with the friends who count.
As you start working, put aside some budget to travel and visit friends, to facilitate
that last point.
The constant stress, periodic depressive episodes, and judgmental cliqueiness you experienced
at Harvard made you wonder if it would be worth it,
and having had two years the get over the PTSD you're finally starting to see the
results and yes your life is better for it. Like when I say the struggle was real as the
entire set of rational and irrational numbers, it was real.
But worth it, the sum of the series was positive in value. Ok, enough with the math jokes,
I diverge.
The best part about Harvard is the people and you are going to be leaning on an amazing
network of friends and alumni who will be incredibly generous and supportive.
There's really no way to casually mention that you went to Harvard.
You're always going to get a big reaction, you've tried every way possible to play
it off, be cool. It's just not going to happen, people are
just going to have high expectations of you from now on, so you know, have fun dashing
those.
Even though you just got these fancy degrees that make you look like you know what you're
talking about, to a certain degree everyone is still faking it.
People don't know what they're going to do with their lives.
Your peers may think they know but they actually don't because they haven't tried it yet.
You can't tell what's going to be a good fit down the road.
You don't need a 5 year plan, and anyone who acts like you do is probably just asking because
they're run out of questions during a job interview, so have some sort of answer, but
in reality it's not that deep.
And lastly, Commencement is aptly named. This is just the beginning, you're going
to do so much developing in the next year or so.
And girl don't worry, for you, college years are not the best years of your life. *phew*
As cliche as it sounds, the best is definitely yet to come.
Being an independent adult who is completely in control of how they spend their time is
pretty amazing. And those are things I wish I'd known.
Let me know what you wish you had known when you graduated,
and if you just graduated then congratulations and how are you feeling about all this - let
me know in the comments. You can like this video if you liked it, subscribe
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my back for a while, thank you for helping me to make this a reality.
As always, remember to live spiritedly and think creatively.
What's making me happy this week is Evelyn from the Internet's video - love her stuff.
And it's on feeling behind in life. It's creative, it's a collaboration between her
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Definitely say hi, find me, I would love to see you.
Well, I'm going to go find the right smoke signals to follow. Thank you so much for watching
and I will see you next time. *POP*
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