so this is the rest of your life - by Rona Wang

i'm about to graduate. now what?

A few years ago, I read somewhere—maybe on a self-help blog, maybe on some r/AskReddit thread, who knows—about a young adult who had graduated from college and realized one day, this is my life. This isn’t me preparing for my life—this is my life. Seems like an obvious insight, perhaps, but for a teenager who had spent her entire life in school—in preparation for her life—this felt revelatory. One day, all the “obvious” stepping stones would be gone, and it would be up to me to find my own path forward. What did I come to college for? What do I owe the world? When I look back on my life,…

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