GRADUATION FEELS
It's scary to think that I am officially a University Graduate.
I graduated in July 2019, with a degree I never intended to get because circumstances beyond my control meant I changed my course in my final year. And where do you go after you graduate? The world is so full of opportunities, so they say, and while that is true to some extent, it is more accurate to describe how I was feeling like this:
Imagine: it's early in the morning, but you're tired from having had a long busy day yesterday and you slept badly. You wake up excited at the prospect of getting to watch some Netflix at last! You turn on the TV and suddenly the choices hit you and you're overwhelmed. Do you want a comedy or romance? TV or film? Brand new or an old favourite? You spend what feels like hours scrolling through the choices, growing more uneasy about what you want, and frustrated that you can't seem to find it. Then you turn off the TV and decide you'd rather give up.
Sound familiar? Most people I know have experienced the same situation with Netflix before - and I think I am beginning to understand why it's so frustrating. You see, Netflix uses an algorithm to suggest shows and movies to you that align with your preferences and what you've already seen. It's using what it knows about you to show you what it believes you want to see. Therein lies the difficulty of graduating; there isn't something telling you that based on X, Y and Z and what you did last year and what breed of dog you have, that you should be an X. So if we thought trudging through Netflix was hard, imagine how much harder making real-life choices will be, when there hasn't been a pre-selected list of appropriate options provided.
So, what have I been doing? Since graduating, I spent a few weeks trying to work out what to do and then settled on finding something temporary so I have longer to plan a sort of future career. I ended up stumbling into a marketing assistant job which I found through a friend, and I am here until November when my boyfriend and I go on a month-long adventure to New Zealand.
When we're back, I don't know what's going to happen. The more I think of that, the less I know. I am silently praying it sort of comes to me while we're on our trip. There are so many options but I have no idea where to even start, so, for now, I will make it through the rest of the year.
Happy Graduation to all the 2019 Graduates - if you're going through the Netflix analogy, might I recommend that all five Twilight films are on there currently. So no need to keep searching aimlessly - enough said.
I graduated in July 2019, with a degree I never intended to get because circumstances beyond my control meant I changed my course in my final year. And where do you go after you graduate? The world is so full of opportunities, so they say, and while that is true to some extent, it is more accurate to describe how I was feeling like this:
Imagine: it's early in the morning, but you're tired from having had a long busy day yesterday and you slept badly. You wake up excited at the prospect of getting to watch some Netflix at last! You turn on the TV and suddenly the choices hit you and you're overwhelmed. Do you want a comedy or romance? TV or film? Brand new or an old favourite? You spend what feels like hours scrolling through the choices, growing more uneasy about what you want, and frustrated that you can't seem to find it. Then you turn off the TV and decide you'd rather give up.
Sound familiar? Most people I know have experienced the same situation with Netflix before - and I think I am beginning to understand why it's so frustrating. You see, Netflix uses an algorithm to suggest shows and movies to you that align with your preferences and what you've already seen. It's using what it knows about you to show you what it believes you want to see. Therein lies the difficulty of graduating; there isn't something telling you that based on X, Y and Z and what you did last year and what breed of dog you have, that you should be an X. So if we thought trudging through Netflix was hard, imagine how much harder making real-life choices will be, when there hasn't been a pre-selected list of appropriate options provided.
So, what have I been doing? Since graduating, I spent a few weeks trying to work out what to do and then settled on finding something temporary so I have longer to plan a sort of future career. I ended up stumbling into a marketing assistant job which I found through a friend, and I am here until November when my boyfriend and I go on a month-long adventure to New Zealand.
When we're back, I don't know what's going to happen. The more I think of that, the less I know. I am silently praying it sort of comes to me while we're on our trip. There are so many options but I have no idea where to even start, so, for now, I will make it through the rest of the year.
Happy Graduation to all the 2019 Graduates - if you're going through the Netflix analogy, might I recommend that all five Twilight films are on there currently. So no need to keep searching aimlessly - enough said.
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