A farewell to St. Joe’s and a look forward to what’s next

So we’ve covered classes; we’ve covered internships, advisors and career paths. Before you know it, all of that gets figured out, and in 23 days you finally can reflect on that concept. You’ll be walking in a cap and gown, feeling excited, confused, old and lovey-dovey about your friends/roommates/ professors/that kid you spent that one semester with playing tic-tac-toe and whoa, congratulations; You did it, it’s now your turn to buy the alumni mug in the bookstore and whine about the perils of post-grad life.

In all reality, I’m just teasing. After all, we don’t spend four years of time on Hawk Hill to lament about how it’s been the absolute happiest time we will ever experience. It is a wonderful time, but it is also a building block to find what we love, add more to our brains and gain experiences that help us decide who we are moving forward.

And because I’m weeks away from restarting the cycle of becoming the little fish in the pond, bear with me while I embrace my last few moments of “big fish” wisdom.

Here’s what I got for you:

1. You’ll figure it out. You will have the tools. You will find the internship. You will get better at interviewing, networking and the like, so try to give yourself a break on the pressure, and be excited about what you bring to the table.
2. As we’ve learned, the Marketing Research group project is miserable until you have some really rockin’ people in your group and it all ends up being okay. The people are what make it – that class, that team, that club. An immense amount of love to my Business Policy group for reinforcing this one for me.
3. You may love a lot of moments and you may not love some moments. Weigh more on the times you love than the times you don’t, but know you’re taking something from every single one of them. If you’re finding you have more that you don’t love than you do love, don’t forget that you can (and should) change that.

And with that, enjoy every single second. It goes incredibly fast, and even then, you’ll be ready. To any of my business major friends reading this, believe in that. Thanks for entertaining my old person wisdom these past few weeks.

Best of luck.