Huh… that’s weird! How is it possible that I am sitting here, writing the infamous “Senioritis” column for The Stupe?! It feels like it was just two weeks ago that I was writing under “Mind of a Freshman.” All of a sudden, as if no time had passed, four years flew away right before my very eyes.
I’m going to blame this “incident” on the pandemic. You know, it is pretty well-known that time goes by faster during a quarantine. Seconds turn into milli-seconds, days turn into hours, four years turn into… two weeks. I’m pretty sure that you can find a bunch of scientific articles to back that up, if you look hard enough! (Well, if you look hard enough you can find anything on Google, but that’s beside the point). What I’m saying is that the quarantine brought about by COVID-1870 has superpowers. Yeah, you heard that right. It has the power to infuse the most taxing, heartbreaking, irritating feelings of boredom and anxiety into the lives of millions of people. Not the best superpower, I digress, but I believe that this travesty has made time go by faster. Think about it — each day has been melding seamlessly with the next, leaving almost no distinction between the two, as we stare at nothing but our computer screens and the backs of our eyelids. No wonder I’m now a college senior, despite this unexplainable feeling that I am still a freshman.
Alright, this is a pretty solid theory, but I have another one. Maybe time is just simply nonexistent at Snevets. Bear with me for a moment. We dedicate hours upon hours to school, and homework, and more school, and more work that, sooner or later, this creates a black hole that all time is absorbed into. I must not have realized that four years passed in the meantime. They must be telling the truth when they say that your social life doesn’t exist when you’re a STEM major! I wonder if all Snevets students feel the same way, or if this is just my own passing oblivion.
I will say, I am quite excited to venture into the “real world” after graduation at the end of the year. I just wish I felt more prepared for it! I’m not even fully sure what career I want to pursue; I’ve always been super indecisive, and I always thought I would have more time to decide. Hopefully the B.S. degree that I achieve at the end of the year will open a few new unexpected doors. I do have a job interview tomorrow, as a tutor for a second grader. Even though I’m not sure that this is an adequate profession, it truly is better than nothing.
I hate to end this so abruptly, but I must go. Somehow, I have to find a way to account for four years worth of experiences and educational endeavors that I can list on my currently-blank resume. I’m not sure that even a second grader would hire me with my current qualifications.
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