2008 Woodie Awards
The Real World: Graduation
Nicole Daddona
Issue date: 3/26/08 Section: Life/styles
In the last installment of "The Real World: Graduation" I reminded all of you of your uniqueness and the unique gift that you can offer to the world-yourself. When I give a gift to someone, I usually do my best to put thought and/or time into it. I get great pleasure out of crafting the perfect gift for someone I care for. The more thought and time I put into a gift, the more excited I get to deliver it to the gift recipient. I will be honest, there have been a handful of thoughtlessly thrown together gifts I have given to people over the course of my twenty-two years of life. I can recall one ill-fated birthday gift I bought for a high school friend-a toiletry bag filled with soap, lotion, a loofa, and (for some reason) tampons. It doesn't surprise me that this person didn't invite me to any birthday gatherings after that.
Anyway, all this talk about gifts and gift giving is to help explain the way that we give our own selves to this world. When thinking about all this, the phrase, "You reap what you sow" rings in my ears. What's true for tests is true for life. The more you apply yourself and the more of yourself you invest in your studies, the better you will do. Who really wants to cruise through life only to look back and regret the things that they never applied themselves to do? So, how does this relate to the life of a college graduate? I am hoping that the answers to the questions in this column will help us both to succeed and put our best foot forward as we enter life outside of college. As a result, we can give the best version of ourselves to the world. I know that if we put time and energy into learning what we need to know as college graduates, we will be all the more excited to give the gift of ourselves to this world.
But the only way to get these answers is to ask questions. This is where you come in! I need your questions. E-mail me with them. If you know who I am, stop me in the hall and ask me! I'm eagerly awaiting them. Until then I will be asking my own questions because I'm sure that I am not the only one who has them. I originally started this column because of my own desire to find answers to the many questions I have about entering the real world. I can remember sitting with my dad talking about the idea over sesame chicken and dumplings and writing down some of my questions. I titled the list "Things a college grad needs to know about" and proceeded to jot down everything from finding a job to loosing the freshman 15 on a napkin. I would love to hear the things that you, my fellow soon-to-be grads, need to know about!
Anyway, all this talk about gifts and gift giving is to help explain the way that we give our own selves to this world. When thinking about all this, the phrase, "You reap what you sow" rings in my ears. What's true for tests is true for life. The more you apply yourself and the more of yourself you invest in your studies, the better you will do. Who really wants to cruise through life only to look back and regret the things that they never applied themselves to do? So, how does this relate to the life of a college graduate? I am hoping that the answers to the questions in this column will help us both to succeed and put our best foot forward as we enter life outside of college. As a result, we can give the best version of ourselves to the world. I know that if we put time and energy into learning what we need to know as college graduates, we will be all the more excited to give the gift of ourselves to this world.
But the only way to get these answers is to ask questions. This is where you come in! I need your questions. E-mail me with them. If you know who I am, stop me in the hall and ask me! I'm eagerly awaiting them. Until then I will be asking my own questions because I'm sure that I am not the only one who has them. I originally started this column because of my own desire to find answers to the many questions I have about entering the real world. I can remember sitting with my dad talking about the idea over sesame chicken and dumplings and writing down some of my questions. I titled the list "Things a college grad needs to know about" and proceeded to jot down everything from finding a job to loosing the freshman 15 on a napkin. I would love to hear the things that you, my fellow soon-to-be grads, need to know about!
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