An Introduction

Senior year of college is arguably the apex of youth. Top of academia, freed from home, and surrounded by only people your age, all of whom are looking to forget the gruesome hardship of class four days a week by taking advantage of all that the local bars or Greek scene have to offer. After all, Wednesday was the new Thursday, which officially became the new Friday, considering no one had Friday classes if they could help it.

However, you graduate – and the glory and prestige of being a recent graduate from some University fades as fast as it is gained. Getting that first job is what matters, and your “experience” in college listed on your resume does not end up amounting to all that much to potential employers. Eventually, or so you hope, you land the job.

But what about the other facets of your life? You are no longer constantly surrounded by others in their 20s looking to have a good time. Rather, free time is redefined as the period between getting off work at 5 or 6 until an early bedtime. Meeting new people becomes a hobby in itself, as somehow “social networking” enters your vocabulary right alongside professional networking.

Plus, forget making new friends – how are you supposed to meet that special someone – be it a temporary or long lasting affair. The “security clearance,” if you will, of meeting someone on your campus dissipates at a random bar in the city. How do you size up the drunkard hitting on you at the bar? Plus, the rules of dating in adulthood are strange and foreign to the ways of college hook-ups, which are primarily based on strategic text messaging.

The time between college and when you settle down upon uncovering your own terrifyingly permanent happy ending in your late 20s or early 30s – although I’m sure that matrimony and a mortgage have much to recommend themselves – is awkward, challenging, and full of opportunity.

This blog will embrace the awkwardness. Because it is the things that are bizarre in life that make it interesting.