Last Wednesday was my last night of college \u201cclass\u201d. I still have one more night to attend April 20th) to perform my senior project presentation and turn in my senior project, but for all intents and purposes, I\u2019m done. Graduation is May 14th. <\/p>\n

I should probably feel more excited about the whole thing but I don\u2019t. I think part of it is because the excitement of graduating is somewhat of cancelled out by the embarrassment of never having completed it in the first place. All of this would have been so much cheaper and easier had I done this a decade ago when I should have. Another reason I don\u2019t think I\u2019m as excited as I probably should be is because this degree really isn\u2019t gaining me anything at the moment. In a way I feel like I just spent a bunch of money and put in a lot of effort just to reach the status quo, to get the degree that everybody else got four years after high school ended. It\u2019s already been established that achieving this degree won\u2019t affect my job (monetarily or position-wise) and even if I used it to get another job, it\u2019s doubtful it would pay what this one does. I guess I should have thought about this stuff fifteen thousand dollars ago. <\/p>\n

All this nonsense begs the question of why I did it in the first place. There are two reasons. One is because Susan told me to (hah). The other is, I did it for me. I guess I did it to say to myself, I can do it; and I did, although there was never really any question in my mind that I could do it (I\u2019ve met more than one idiot with a degree) so now I guess I feel like I just spent all that money to prove to OTHER people that I could do it. Of course the people that know me knew I could do it, so really it\u2019s like I just spent all that money to prove it to people that don\u2019t know me, which seems even more ridiculous. <\/p>\n

Thoughts of pursuing a master\u2019s degree are still up in the air. On one hand, I think that a master\u2019s degree would put me ahead of the rat pack (or at least closer to the front). On the other hand, it\u2019s still very much a degree that wouldn\u2019t affect my current working situation in the least. I equate the pursuit of a master\u2019s degree with the pursuit of a new career. That\u2019s not to say I\u2019m not considering it … it\u2019s just that as I\u2019ve said before, a bachelor\u2019s degree can help you out regardless of your vocation. Many of the skills I\u2019ve learned throughout SNU\u2019s Organizational Leadership program can be applied today. But a master\u2019s degree without any direction seems kind of pointless. <\/p>\n

Wow, that\u2019s the most depressing \u201cI just graduated from college\u201d post I\u2019ve ever read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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