2008 Woodie Awards
Experience the real world after the bubble
Kate Arney-Cimino
Issue date: 10/7/04 Section: Op/Ed
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Our whole lives are dictated for us: after second grade we go to third and after freshman year in college we go to the next until graduation day when we walk off the stage into a new time of liberating, terrifying uncertainty. Today we have the opportunity to go with the flow after graduation, or we can be very unpredictable and creative. By creative, I mean something out of the mold, like leading Outward Bound exhibitions in the Rockies, rescuing animals from natural disasters or traveling around the U.S. in an RV speaking out about sexual assault.
Their names were John, Nick, Matt and Will. They had just graduated from William and Mary College and helped form the No More organization, a men's outreach for rape education. They raised the money to start the organization and also for an RV. Now, from Sept. 2004 until June 2005, they are traveling around in their RV to colleges talking to men's organizations. They speak to men about rape prevention and use graphic details to describe what man on man rape is like.
After their trip, one of the men plans to go to medical school and another plans to become a science teacher, but right now they are living the dream of going against the mold of getting a job or going to graduate school right after college.
As a senior, I'm experiencing the pressures of making decisions about what to do after college. It would be great to break the mold and travel in an RV speaking out about something or to work in a diner on the beach just for fun. Unfortunately there is money to be made and bills to be paid, and it all starts as soon as we cross the stage in May.
Common wisdom states that the longer you wait, the smarter everyone younger than you gets as you get dumber. Does this mean that we should all hit the rat race running after we graduate?
In the first presidential debate, presidential candidate John Kerry said, "I've never wilted in my life; I've never waivered." This sounds a little idealistic, and I don't really believe him, but John, Nick, Matt and Will are standing strong in not following the norm after school. They are waivering from the normal path, but they are not wilting. These students are truly taking a divergent path.
Their names were John, Nick, Matt and Will. They had just graduated from William and Mary College and helped form the No More organization, a men's outreach for rape education. They raised the money to start the organization and also for an RV. Now, from Sept. 2004 until June 2005, they are traveling around in their RV to colleges talking to men's organizations. They speak to men about rape prevention and use graphic details to describe what man on man rape is like.
After their trip, one of the men plans to go to medical school and another plans to become a science teacher, but right now they are living the dream of going against the mold of getting a job or going to graduate school right after college.
As a senior, I'm experiencing the pressures of making decisions about what to do after college. It would be great to break the mold and travel in an RV speaking out about something or to work in a diner on the beach just for fun. Unfortunately there is money to be made and bills to be paid, and it all starts as soon as we cross the stage in May.
Common wisdom states that the longer you wait, the smarter everyone younger than you gets as you get dumber. Does this mean that we should all hit the rat race running after we graduate?
In the first presidential debate, presidential candidate John Kerry said, "I've never wilted in my life; I've never waivered." This sounds a little idealistic, and I don't really believe him, but John, Nick, Matt and Will are standing strong in not following the norm after school. They are waivering from the normal path, but they are not wilting. These students are truly taking a divergent path.