7 Down, 1 To Go

As the end of the semester is fast approaching, I wanted to catch up on what has been going on in my life these past few months. Getting ready for the final semester of my senior year at college can be kind of daunting, and sometimes sad. I realized, as I registered for classes a few weeks back, that I only need 13 credits to graduate—and that’s with more than 120 credits overall! With only 13 credits on my plate, I will have more free time and more time to apply to jobs. This is perhaps the most frustrating and often sad part of the last semester of senior year—looking for employment. A lot of older folks say that, ‘You shouldn’t worry; you’re young, it’ll be no time before you find a job.’ Yet when you’re sitting there, in front of the computer screen trying to modify your resume to seem more complete, like you have accomplished something in the past four or more years, the prospect of a job seems a million miles away.

For some of us seniors, the job hunt is yet a few years away, with the graduate school applications taking up all the time you have, free or not. And for them as well, the prospect of embarking on another few years of education seems to be daunting, while job applications seem to be the easiest option. Yet whichever way you spin it, one thing is clear—we, the upcoming seniors of 2011, are scared and excited to move on with our lives. We are in living anticipation of what is yet to come, what the world has yet to offer us, because as the fresh faced graduates of William and Mary, we know that there is no class better prepared to take life head on than we, the seniors of 2011.

Sabina Abdullayeva
Class of 2011