Senior year is a terrifying and wonderful thing all at the same time. Bad before, good, we start with the terrifying.
After I graduate, I will in fact be a part of the real world, paying bills, deciding my future, and doing all sorts of grown up things. Granted, I'll break the stress by biking through Europe next summer and I am technically already paying bills, but still, the real world is terrifying, and so is having to do everything myself. There should be co-ops everywhere so that I don't have to cook every one of my meals. In addition to needing to find a job, I'll soon be off my parents insurance. Now that is terrifying. For all of my life I've had great health care (thanks mom and dad), but that ends once I graduate and that's scary. I've seen my sibling try to do the real world without health insurance and it doesn't seem very fun, I'm not excited.
However, this is it, the last stand, my last year of college to do everything I ever wanted to do. I have made a list of all the things I want to do before I leave Oberlin, which includes, among other things, going to a rugby game, getting a picture of an albino squirrel, and going to more observing sessions at Peters. I also need to take lots of exco's my last semester and just be doing awesome things. With the exception of possibly going back to grad school, I'm done with school, which is so relieving. Don't get me wrong, I've loved my time here, but sometimes you just need a break from all the classroom learning.
So I'm transitioning to on the spot learning. I'll be biking through Europe with my sibling and a few other people this summer and since I don't have a proper bike, I'll be building one at the bike co-op. The benefit of this is that I can do it cheaper since I'll be doing all the labor myself and I'll learn first hand how a bike works and hopefully will better know how to fix things once we get over in Europe. I'm super excited, it's going to be an amazing experience and I really love spending time with my sibling, especially since zie will be heading back to school soon too.
All in all, the future is frightening, but living in this moment, so close to my 21st birthday, is so wonderful.
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I hope you had a great bday! Sorry, I dont´ have internet at the apt. and aside from quick email checks and fb stalking at school (or at alvaro´s family´s house) I don´t messa round online much. But yeah, your bike trip sounds amazing! I hope your sibling is doing well too, miss you!
ReplyDeleteand ps- the real world ain´t that bad, just gotta remember you always keep learning, especially outside of the classroom :)