It's been over two weeks since I graduated and I still don't know how I feel about it. It hasn't truly hit me yet because everyone else is still on holiday break, but I'm sure when they go back to school and I see Facebook and Twitter blowing up with "ugh I don't want to study for this exam" banter that it will hit me. I have no definite plans yet, only to hopefully go to graduate school and see where to go before and after that. I have only met a few people who know exactly what they're doing and I thought they were crazy. On the day of graduation, I met a girl who said this, "Well, I'm graduating today and then getting married in one week. After that I will go on my honeymoon and then get a job teaching MCAT prep classes because I did really well on the test in addition to getting a 4.0 in college. I will support my husband while he finishes up his undergrad and then go to medical school and he will support us then." My jaw dropped upon hearing this. Good for her, but I have met very few people who have their lives planned out to that extent. I once heard someone say that the people whose lives are not planned out and who travel on winding paths are the happiest in the end and I hope to be one of those people.
For now, I'm snuggling and taking care of my nieces and living with my sister. Every time I would come home to visit them I kept thinking how awesome of a life that would be. I know I will get sick of it and should get some sort of job to start paying back my loans, but that has been on the back burner of my mind since I graduated. I have searched a little and should do more, but being a bum has been fun for now. I have gotten emails from some of the graduate schools in which I applied and hope to hear back from them before March. Perhaps I will travel to visit them at some point this spring. I still can't decide about Nicaragua. So many life choices.
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