Written by Ryan Orr
It is August 1993. I wake up to get ready for this thing called kindergarten. I have no idea what to expect for my very first day of school. Flash forward 18 years, it is March 2011, and I am a little more than a month away from graduating from college. Yes, I crammed four years of school into five. Despite all the 18 years of school, I still look into the future and have no idea what to expect.It seems that all my life I have just gone to bed knowing tomorrow is class or I need just one more day to study for this test. Now I will be going to bed thinking, “Did I remember to pay my house bill?” As with so many other May graduates, I’m sure, the question is, “What am I going to do with my life?”Being able to know that I will have no more classes anymore is a great feeling. Don’t get me wrong. but the uncertainty of what to come is what really scares me.Going into my final year here at Harding, I thought it would be like any of my previous years. I was way off. Trying to balance looking for a job, finding a place to live and fighting the ever-so-strong senioritis have been great tasks.One thing that has helped me is my senior seminar class for graduating communication majors. This class has helped me realize what kind of preparation that is needed to be successful in the real world. Anything from budgets to finding the right place to move is a huge task to get done, but this class has really helped.Apart from advice, what I have found that works best for me, though, is the power of prayer. Just being able to give all my worries and stresses up to God helps more than I ever would have thought.I am not writing this to scare any of you; I simply think there are many people out there who think they are alone in this. But knowing that God is always there and that your friends are there going through the same thing helps.So to all the graduating seniors out there: Good luck after May, and always remember you’re not alone.RYAN ORR is a guest contributor for the Buffalo. He may be contacted atjorr1@harding.edu
