“Look, go to college, go find your major, realize you’re minor in the scheme of everything” — “Kiss of Venus,” Dominic Fike and Paul McCartney
It’s the last semester of your senior year in college — you couldn’t be more excited to walk off the graduation stage and snatch your diploma from the professor who gave you a C- in Professional Speaking 102 — except your actual diploma gets mailed to you in the middle of July.
Flash forward to the end of summer. You’ve successfully completed your well-deserved senior trip with your best friends who are moving across the country to work for Facebook — wait what? How does someone even apply to Facebook? Does Mark Zuckerburg interview you himself?
You’re back at home, contemplating why you haven’t heard back from any job applications yet. You wonder if it’s because AI is taking over the world and if the resume you created for $3.99 on ResumeGenius.com is not up to par.
Dealing with post-grad blues is real. Your friends are working grand corporate jobs, which is something you’ve only seen on TV. You think about settling for a simple 9-to-5 office job — similar to “Parks and Recreation” — yes, that sounds perfect! Much to one’s despair, they require a minimum of five+ years of experience and for you to have a master’s degree from Princeton — seriously, not Yale?
Recent graduate student Diem Le graduated with a master’s in human resources and industrial relations in 2023. Le said that her experience with navigating life after college has been anything but smooth sailing, but reminds herself to stay positive.
“Seeing my peers reach further milestones does put pressure on how far I should’ve gotten in life by now,” Le said. “I remind myself that I am living life for the first time — just as everyone else — and no one has all the answers. I see these expectations as guidance and a reminder that I can succeed.”
Viewing a job posting online and seeing over a…
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