You CAN’T Always Get What You Want

Mick Jagger knew what he was talking about when he crooned about not getting what you want. It is really easy to leave college and WANT a lot of things. As you graduate and prepare to enter the elusive ‘real world,’ remember that it is OK to not get what you want. Some people will really need to get used to that, especially those who are used to over achieving at ...well, LIFE. Being rational about want vs. ...

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Be You

Graduation as a concept is weird. All your life, you have gone to school. Done things people told you for a grade. You have spent 17 years of your life getting an "education." Then this one day comes and the "higher powers of academia" hand you a piece of paper. Seventeen years for a piece of paper? For real? Parents, teachers and other adults told you if you worked hard and got good grades, you'd be set. H ...

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For the Graduates

First I would like to say congratulations to you. You have survived what has probably been four years of tears due to happiness, stress, sadness, fear, and alcohol. You have this one last stretch before it is all complete. You should feel elated and unfaltering. However, you may have a slight crippling lack of faith about the unknown that is waiting for you. You will hear every piece of bad and good advice ...

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There Comes A Time

The trees don't seem as green as they used to. The air, which I've always remembered as crisp and fresh and inviting, has a chill to it that I can't help but feel is new. Faces seem stonier. Or at least more reluctant. It's been about a year since leaving this place, and I'm not just sure that I'm ready to return. It's feels like forever ago. Maybe a year is forever? Not my call to make. -- The first leg of ...

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