College Grads: how do you cope?!?!?
All of this "back-to-school" BS is making me sick! Half of me wishes that your student loans would get revoked and you'd all have to go work at the local Wal-Mart. The other wants to sit down and have a chat with you...me being the wise old man that I am now, I can tell you how you need to appreciate these years, because the time goes by oh so fast.
Regardless, what I need to know is how all you college grads dealt with being booted out of the safe, happy little bubble after graduation (which was a stupid, stupid idea to EVER do, but it's too late for that...hindsight is 20/20 indeed). My girlfriend is flipping out because I've bought about five or six video games in the last two weeks and I have friends up every weekend and we kinda do the college thing (no booze but we play video games until 2:00 in the mornin' and then watch Dazed and Confused or Half Baked). I posted this horror story in another thread, but my downstairs neighbor in my apartment is in his 40's! That's so foreign to me. I can deal without the booze gladly and even without the chicks and parties, but, quite seriously, how did you guys make that transition from being surrouned by friends 24-7 with 90% of your friends being within a mile radius AT MOST to suddenly having that ripped out from under you? My nearest friends geographically are about 50 miles away! One of my old roommates is in NYC, another in South Carolina and yet another in grad school out in California! I can't deal with this shit. I've been out for all of three or four months and all the sudden getting together with friends means checking schedules, planning drives, moving it to "next weekend" (which never comes) and all that.
I'm really not trying to be a wise-ass here, but i've never felt so utterly out of touch with friends as I do now. What comes next? Tell me I'm not the only one who's been 'here'?