After the Grand finale party >>> What next?
I am hoping that by now you have read part I of “Snippets of life after campus” to fully connect with what am talking about.
I had stated earlier that one of my
Lecturers used to compare life in campus to that of a passenger in a bus… and
after alighting this bus many always find themselves in very interesting
situations!
On the D-day; the rehearsals have been
taken care of and everything is set… the excitement, still intact: for a reason
or two I arrive at the graduation square late and to make it worse I find my
seat missing: each seat had a name tag on it, it was there a day before and now
missing?! You can imagine how frustrating it is! At that minute I am up and about
looking for the registrar: wait, and how I’m I gonna explain that my seat was
present the day before and now it’s missing; it’s not like I expected her to do
much considering the fact that she had already lined up for the procession, but
somehow I felt like it would offer me some sense of relief. I finally spot her
and I go like ‘ummhhh… excuse me Madam, my seat is missing!’ everyone on the
queue by now including the Vice Chancellor has this ‘are you nuts?’ look on
their face, just then… ‘I thought I had shown you how to adjust your gowns,
come closer’ what? that’s all she could say, and as if to console me… she
adjusts my hood and the cap and then she releases me! I mean that’s all she did..!
Let me just say, my excitement had been driven away by little frustrations that
accompanied the day.
Despite the excitement and all, I have
learnt that Graduation days do sometimes present a lot of confusion and drama,
actually that was not the only situation that I was faced with, there were
quite a no. and later I came to discover that I wasn’t the only one who went
through some sort of confused moments going by my friends stories a few days
later… though this just a by the way.
After the party… what next? When being
ushered in to this other side of life which many like to refer to as the “Outside
world” the fresh graduate is usually celebrated by family and friends and all
sorts of advice given. What happens a few days later is quite interesting… What
was it like for you, just in case you have experienced it?! This is the period
I usually refer to as “The defining moment” it’s like that moment when one
ponders on what to do and all the dreams and aspirations you had while at the
University suddenly strike your mind; and you are left wondering where to start
from, who to call, probably those that had been promising to take you in their
organizations immediately you graduate.
I can assure you that after the
graduation party everyone is back to their business and you were possibly
thinking that they would be around to walk the rest of the journey with you!
When I graduated, trust me, for a reason or two I thought and expected that I
would achieve quite a good number of things that I had planned to while at
campus; I must have imagined that if I applied for a particular job opening as
long as I met the requirements stated, it would automatically be mine!
This is the moment reality comes hitting
back at you and all your fantasies from campus are merely turned into shadows…!
{You must be wondering by now how I
survived without a seat on my graduation day, somehow when I went back to the
graduation square a friend of mine had already sorted me out and there I was
comfortably seated!}
The story still continues… Part III of
Snippets of life after campus…coming soon!
Written by:
Dorcas Waringa
July 15th 2012
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