I don’t believe anyone is ever really ready to graduate from college. Why would you be? Isn't this the best four years of your life?! Once you graduate college you are held to higher expectations. It marks your official step into adulthood. What if you're not ready? There are four stops on this emotional roller-coaster for those of us who are not ready to graduate college.
Sadness
The first initial feeling is sadness, melancholy, sorrow. You realize that these are your last few months to spend with people you’ve created life long friendships with. It’s the last Halloween, last Friendsgiving, and last Secret Santa’s. Quicker than you wanted it to everything is coming to an end and you feel yourself getting depressed. You're graduating from college. How? It was just your freshman year. You were just getting lost trying to find your classes…and now it’s senior year? You have to apply for graduation. You are going to have to tighten up your GPA. You are going to have to move back in with your parents.?! Queue sadness.
Excitement
After you push pass the sadness, you remember that because it’s your last year everything has to be the best. You become super excited but this is going to be the best Homecoming ever, best Spring Break ever, best everything ever! You and your friends spend every possible second together and plan to finally execute all the adventures you had on your bucket list from freshman year. There's so much more than senior you can do that freshman you only dreamed of. Finally, the time has come for you to do it all!
Worry
Remember I said it's a rollercoaster of emotions? Well yeah, senior you was just super happy and high on life, but now it's time for you to come back down. Once the excitement is over the worry starts to creep up. You’re graduating! Everyone's going to be asking you that dreaded question "What's next?" And you probably have no ideas! Maybe it's Grad school, or interning, or traveling the world? Who know's. Then you start to hyperventilate because now you're kind of an actual person and have to make these decisions yourself.
Are you ready to be an actual person now? Do you even want to be an actual person? What exactly are you going to do? The worrying phase can be the longest and most damning emotional phases you go through when you aren't ready to graduate college. But, on the bright side worrying about your future is normal. Besides worrying isn't anything a glass of wine can't fix!
Pride
