Yesterday I Graduated from College

Yesterday I graduated from college.

I got a B.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland, with a minor in Spanish Languages & Cultures and a minor in Chinese Language. What now?

Graduating was kind of anticlimactic. I got a fake diploma that was a piece of nice paper with a turtle on it. Big whoop.

I thought the last night of college as we know it would be like "WHOAAAAAA WE'RE REAL PEOPLE!!!!" but instead it just involved waiting on the same dumb lines for overcrowded College Park bars, not getting in and resorting to my favorite place on campus, the fountain. No regrets. I love the fountain and I loved watching the drunk graduates who considered it a rite of passage to race in it and fall clumsily.

Three months from today I'm headed to Shanghai, China, where I'm going to teach English to small Chinese children and the thought of it just makes me smile. It's not that I'm sick of the U.S., it's just that this is a time in life to (okay, fine) put off growing up and having a 9-5 job in an office (sorry, Jenna, but you're making bank, no hard feelings). Not that I'm putting off growing up, either, it's just awesome that I have the chance to leave and I'm going to do it.

Do I feel any more like a "real person" than I did yesterday before getting my name called and shaking the hand of the head of the Department of Communication at UMD? Nope. I still look 18.

--Becca