start drinking coffee, get a coffee stain on your favorite tie, resent those “kids” when they move into town every fall, think about grad school, worry about your loan payments, develop a hobby that you hope will turn into a career, freak out when it does, worry if your so-called career is really going to fulfill your needs for the rest of your life, think about going to grad school, have a pregnancy scare, change apartments, consider moving from coffee to tea, work out, develop some credit card debt because it’s far too long for you not to have really experienced eastern europe and the dollar’s still strong, get fired a couple of times, move again, open a savings account, think about becoming a day trader, wonder if teeth whiteners are really going to solve your problems… Oh, the places you’ll go.
after being asked “what now?” by a recent college grad.