Well, it’s here. A time that we have spent the last four years going to school for is finally upon us. We have taken classes on science, history, art, health, and math. But there is no class that can really prepare us for what we will accomplish once we get our little piece of paper that says we have paid over $100,000 worth of tuition and other needed expenses these last four (or five, or six; I’m not judging you) years. Some of us are going on to grad school, to either become a doctor or get your Doctorate, some have jobs already lined up, and some are going to be lying out on a couch back at the parents’ place.

But whatever our plans are, I can promise you that ten years from now, it won’t matter what we graduated with; it will matter what you do with it. Whether you graduated top of the pack or at the bottom, there is still plenty of time for you to either get passed up or for someone to fly by you with their own accomplishments. So what ever you do, don’t slow down or become complacent with what you accomplished in college. If you remember when you came out of high school at the top of your game only find out that you were just a big fish in a small pond, but you were a really tiny fish in a really really really tiny pond–same game, new pond. No one is going to care what you did in college. The only thing that will matter is what you can do right now.
So as we all move onward I can only say two things. The first is a challenge to either continue to excel at what you do, or if you don’t like what you’re doing, redefine what you are. It’s never too late to do that. The second is to wish you good luck, because we’re all going to need it.
Peace Gang.