So here we are-the middle of Week Seven (out of ten). Oy! It seems that this quarter is going by especially fast-and with this, my graduation approaches. I am left wondering what in the world to do with my life? I’m at a point where I am seriously considering where I want to go once I am done with e (if anywhere), and what I want to do. Its pretty scary-but also pretty exciting.

On the one hand, I feel like I’m at a place in my life where I can do whatever I want, go wherever I please. As a 20-year-old college graduate, I’ve got little responsibility, lots of enthusiasm, an ever-growing potential…and this is just the thing. I will walk in this June’s graduation, I will finish up some credits over the summer-and then I’ll be done! And I’ll only be twenty! And this leads me to believe that the last thing I want to do is anything that I’m going to be trapped in for the rest of my life…and at the same time, it seems like there are so many possibilities!

I’ve spent a lot of my time at Evergreen working in real-life environments, getting worldly experience I could probably get nowhere else. Because of this, I feel quite prepared to go off into the real world. I know that with all my experience in the Gateways program and my employment working with children and youth, I could easily go into teaching or some like-minded profession. Something I’m strongly attracted to is Teach for America- however, this requires a two year commitment, and at this tender age, settling down is the last thing I have in mind. I think something as intense as Teach for America leads straight to “grown-up” jobs or Grad school or the likes- and this just seems like something I need to wait to do, like there’s so much I can fill up the mean time with!

I also contemplate if I even want to leave Olympia-this magical land is like nowhere else I’ve ever been, and even though its only been a few years, it feels very much like home. The community in Olympia and at Evergreen would be hard to leave behind…although at the same time, there are values and ideals here that are much needed all over outside this towns happy bubble, and that transportation could be in my very own hands. Should I go off elsewhere into the world?!

When I find pictures like this (of Percival Landing) that make it hard to decide.