Roller Coaster

 

It seems that the life of a student is a roller coaster. You start in elementary and work up until high school until the year of graduation. As a senior in high school, you can live the fabulous life on top and count down the days until graduation. Then you graduate and go to college. You're back on the bottom as a freshman.

The next four years-sometimes longer- are a challenge. You have to learn the big adjustments of moving on your own and being out from mom and dad's wings. This is when you will learn more than you ever learned in grade school. You climb so far and work so hard to make good grades and have a little fun when time allows, but your focus is once again graduation. 

As a senior in college, you have put in time in your classes but now it's time to "put in the time." Even though you're almost done with college, let's face it, you're on the bottom in the real world.

To me, "putting in the time" means doing things you wouldn't normally do in your daily life in order to put yourself a step ahead of your competitors. These are things like interning, going to seminars, putting together resumes' and working on your interviewing skills. Of course none of these things are fun, but you know it's necessary. 

 "The Fabulous Life" is the life of someone who is trying to do all they can do to set themself apart from the rest. This life is by no means glamorous, but this the life of thousands of college students nationwide. 

I live...the fabulous life.