I’m graduating. What should I do now?
I’ve been planning to move to New York as soon as graduation rolls around and start my life. I’ve been looking forward to this for about two years and now graduation is jsut a couple weeks away. I have an opportunity to spend a month or two traveling across Europe. As soon as I found out, I figured I would just put New York off for a couple of months or whatever and do it because it would be an amazing time. That was like three days ago, and now I’m beginning to think I don’t really want to go!
Europe’s not going anywhere and I’m dying to, you know, get it going, not that I have any particular plan for that per se. I think it would be a terrific time to see all these amazing places I’ve never seen and take a million pictures and meet tons of people, etc., but I’ve got myself going in a certain direction and I don’t really feel like changing it at the moment — especially after my weekend in the city last month. I’m sure a trip like this would be formative, etc., but mostly it would be fucking around.
So, I’m deciding this in the next week or so. I’d love for you guys to weigh in.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Fuck around! Go to Europe. Summer in New York is only slightly more bearable than having your eyes pecked out by hungry birds.
July 19th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Go to Europe! I passed up the chance many many moons ago, and I kick myself daily.
New York will always be there, despite being blow up by steam yesterday. It’s really an awful humid place, and if you have the chance to just go experience other places and sights, especially for a leisurely couple months, *DO IT*.
July 19th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Doh. I just lost a big reply because the anti spam word was “man ray” and I typed “manray”. Should have Ctrl-c’d prior to submitting.
Anyhow, I highly recommend you take a trip to Europe as you’re considering. I personally did a 30 day backpacking trip around Western Europe after I graduated from Oregon State and it was one of the best decisions I made.
You must get started soon though, important steps: book your flight, buy a eurorail pass, get a Lonely Planet guide and reserve a night a hostel in the city you fly into.
Since it was my first time in Europe I flew into London for the English speaking and back out of there.
My route was:
London,
Paris,
Barcelona,
Pamplona,
San Sebastian,
Madrid (Radiohead show),
Fly to: Zurich
Fly to: London
Home.
Hit me up if you would like recommendations for Paris. It was one of my favorite stops and I went back for this past new years.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
If you go to Europe after you ‘start your life’ it might interrupt what you have going on. I’d say go now, and once you get back get down to business. When you’re hanging out on the Mediterranean you’ll know you made the right choice.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
ha. you make a good point.