From the article: Graduation Blues
All students look forward to graduating college or graduate school for years. Sometimes graduation day doesn't bring the sense of relief students expected. Some students feel a let down. Did you? How did you feel after graduating college (or graduate school)? Was it as good as you expected? Or did you feel graduation blues? If you did, how did you shake the blues?
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The Blues, Indeed
- Yes, I've got 'em. Suddenly it was over and there was only the proverbial "deafening silence." The mention of having taken a degree at two recent job interviews yielded responses of seeming aversion. I suspect that these potential employers do not wish to pay extra for a college grad. I am considering graduate school, but costs haven risen and keep rising. The amounts of money now required are staggering while the potential for earning enough to justify the investment is disintegrating. I was congratulated with the words ". . .the end of one road and the beginning of a highway. . ." I couldn't help but feel that it was not the road that has ended but the vehicle I was riding on. Now there is silence and a great deal of time in which to take stock. By the looks of the American nation in the 21st century, it is the military career that holds promise, not the academic one. We have become Sparta, not Athens. Yes, you could call this "the blues."
- —Zeugitai
