LAST BLOG EVER! (probably not)

“Welcome to the real world, it sucks, you're gonna love it!”

I had my last college class ever last Thursday. It was the most surreal thing because all I kept thinking was that “Oh I’ll be back in class in January, like every year.” But the thing is I won’t be back in class because I’m graduating. There’s something about graduating college that seems so different from high school. I don’t know if it’s because I’m graduating a semester early or the lack of pomp and circumstance that I had when I graduated from Marian but none of this seems real to me yet. Whether I’m ready or not I’m getting tossed into the deep end of the real world.

I have been done with my volleyball career for two weeks and I’m already extremely bored. I’m quickly realizing is exactly how much time I have on my hands now. It has made me painfully aware that I am very UNEMPLOYED…

While I technically still have my internship with the marketing department, there isn’t any work for me there because the volleyball season is done. Now I have several prospects for jobs and internships in the spring and of course I have my coaching job but nothing has been set in stone and it is just a little stressful. The truth is I don’t know what I’ll be doing or where I’ll be in two months. I hope I get the Discovery Internship because that would be an amazing experience but who knows how that will go. If not I will mostly be playing things by ear and trying to pave my way in the real world. Good Lord why did I choose the way with the least set-in-stone path.

What I desperately want for Christmas is a direction to head in and what job to take. What will be the most helpful and what will get me to my end goal? Maybe that is half the fun of it though. Not having a clear path has kinda been my style thus far so why start meticulously planning things out now? Oh well, ready or not welcome to the real world.

Thank you, Creighton, for the last for years, and here is to the next four. May they be crazy and amazing in every way.