Ready, Set, Go!

 

Graduation is looming, the momentous ceremony that our parents have been dreaming about since we could walk is finally upon us, and there's nothing we can do to slow down these last few moments to savor the excitement in the air under our beloved luminescent lighting. A symphony of shuffling feet files into the main office reluctant to hand in the uneconomical amount of money we are forced to pay just to apply to graduate. With thoughts of university application fees, residency application fees, school fees, graduation fees, and every other expense that cripple our wallets, we smile meekly at the secretaries as we hand over the dough that once promised us a chance at a social life. Unfortunately, with no promise of actually passing our classes to make the steep amount worthwhile, we spend the next 5 months cramming knowledge into our brains so we can take a test that will calculate weather or not we get to spend thousands of dollars on post-secondary education. Yes, the time has come for us to trade a glowing, debtless life for an existence filled with the back breaking promise of repaying thousands of dollars back to student loans for years to come. When we are 35, we may look back on our $200 graduation photo, that depict the girls with their $80 curls and professional "au natural" $50 makeover, in our $75 yearbook that we've looked at twice since our 10th year reunion, and think "yes, the ridiculous amount of money I spent on my high school graduation was totally worth the next 4 months of starvation I endured at university." Congratulations class of 2014, we finally did it. We are finally free.