Mr. Advice Guy #13 - July 30, 2008

Dear Mr. Advice Guy,
This year will be my last year of university, except I don’t have any plans for what I want to do afterwards. I don’t want to have to start paying full admission prices and paying bills! Should I postpone graduating until I come up with a real plan?
Scared to leave

Dear Scared,
Stop your crying! This should be the happiest time of your life.
I’m sure you’re probably one of these people who haven’t taken any time off from school since you started kindergarten. Now that you’re about to shed the shackles that have held you to your desk for the past 18 years or so, you want to find a way to stay where you are?
Take it from me: school is something that you should finish as quickly as possible. Once you’re done with it, you should get as far away as possible.
Let’s use my scholastic career as an example. I finished my bachelor’s degree as quickly as I possibly could have.
OK, I haven’t actually finished my bachelor’s degree yet. But when I do finish it some time this year, I’ll do it with the satisfaction of knowing that I didn’t waste a single moment of the 11 years it took me to graduate.
And now that I’m coming to the end of the line, I’ve already begun to cut all my ties with TRU and school in general. I barely spend any time at The Omega. It’s not like I’m supposed to be there on a regular basis.
OK, that’s not true. It’s pretty clear that I took a job on campus just so that I wouldn’t have to leave the little comfort zone I’ve established here.
I’m scared of the real world, too.
Hold me...