Life in a post-grad college is entirely different from how it was while you were an under-grad! In fact this is a phase when you're peers are probably working and even a petty telephone bill will make you cringe because asking for money from your parents is no longer that easy. But eventually, everything finds its place and you become more peaceful than ever. Here are a few things that happen during post-grad.
While you had a group of about 15-20 friends in the graduation, this is one phase where you cut out the fat friend circle and restrict to merely 4-5 friends, but these are for a lifetime!
Often, people also doubt if they took the correct combination for their major! While going through LinkedIn profiles, the regret of taking up choices that interests you but do not have better career options sits very high!
You binge on nostalgia every now and then going through all the memories and pictures you've got of your grad school. You regularly start conversations with everyone tagged in a photo by commenting “ugh I miss this!”
Postgrad life gives you a good trailer of the life that awaits you at the end of it, the real life as they say! The bubble of your fantasies about "grown-up" life has already been shot up and you start evolving each day!
Peers who graduated with you will start getting engaged, just then you realize that you are becoming more mature and responsible each passing day. You start taking the responsibility for your actions.
You will start to prefer staying at home to the midnight parties. Furthermore, you will start developing a close relationship with your parents which was strained during teenage and grad school years! You will second them in their opinions and they would also support your decisions!
Living alone and all by yourself will no longer annoy you. You will start finding your own happiness and the way to derive it from yourself. You will become more calm and relaxed.
While life in a grad school is playful, offbeat, crazy and funny, the life during post-grad years is anything but that! It is a phase of self-realization and exploration of your own being. A phase of growing up finally to become a person with a rationale and conscience.
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