So I've Graduated ... Now What?
Picture this: You have taken the familiar journey home for the holiday break and although the bright lights are twinkling above and the snow on the ground has a certain sparkle. You are dreading walking through the front door. Family dinners stop being about coming together and enjoying each other’s company and have turned into an endless Q&A session. So how are your classes going? Do you know what you want to do with your degree? Have you done your internship yet?
Sound familiar? Then you must be a senior in college just like me. Woo hoo!
Right?
Senior year is supposed to be one of the most exciting years of your life but instead stressed out does not even begin to describe the current state of mind. As a Media Studies major, I’ve encountered plenty of people who have found my field of study to be interesting but are also curious about what kind of job I can secure once I walk across the stage next May. Normally, I would have an answer lock, loaded, and ready to give to them but it wasn’t until I received my first rejection for an internship that I realized that transitioning into the work force might not be as easy as I thought.
The interview was for one of the hottest radio station conglomerates (not going to name names) in New York City and I was already coming into the interview with the advantage of my dad being an employee of the company, or so I thought. As I sat in the conference room joined by easily 10 other applicants and the representatives from the station, I came to a scary realization. Not only was I the youngest person interviewing for the internship position, but I was also the least prepared. That was the day that I realized that faking it until I made it was not going to cut it. Naturally, I did not get the internship but something good did come out of it.
Wanna know more? Check out my full write-up on Post Graduation Anxiety in my column for the Mercy College Impact News at the link below: