A Day in the Life of a Graduating Grad Student

*Warning - Some days do vary during the week and or weekend



7:45 - Wake up, look at the clock, roll over you don't have anywhere to be!

8:15 - Stop hitting snooze - think about getting out of bed and being productive

8:45 - Take a shower bec that you think to yourself is productive

9:00 - Put pajamas back on - you don't have anywhere to go

9:05 - Make breakfast - cereal

9:15 - Power up the computer - have brief moment of excitement and anticipation because there may be something worth applying for - dream job - salary - benefits etc etc

9:16 - Rethink the excitment ..... we've been down this road before

9:18 - Check email, blogs instead....previous experience has shown that looking for a job sucks. While checking email you see that you have a new rejection letter bec people don't really send those through the mail anymore.....major confidence booster.

10:00 - Start looking for the JOB

10:30 - Call internship tell them you will not be in till this afternoon bec they don't pay you and you need to find gainful employment

10:32 - Back to the search, start writing cover letter, realize that you will probably never get said job, wonder how anyone gets those infamous 3-5 years of experience

10:50 - Still searching, thinking about the future while looking ... seriously contemplate the decision of graduate school.

11:00 - Frustration is definitley starting to set in.

11:15 - Start wondering if you really are qualified to work at anywhere besides McDonalds

11:30 - Turn on Young and the Restless - they probably have more problems that you do

11:32 - Wonder if Sharon and Nick will ever get back together - decide you def hate Victor

11:40 - Cross off more places on the list of where you think you might be able to work - seriously think about throwing lap top out a window

12:00 - Check the weather - why is it still hot here? Go back to the search

12:35 - Give up and realize you have missed most of Y&R and gotten realivley little accompished in the job search bec A) not qualifed B) navigating their employment portion of the web site is like trying to hack into the CIA C) You are anal and it takes 45 mins to write a cover letter up to your standards

12:50 - Lunch?

1:14 - Time to go to the internship today - not in the mood so already planning the departure

1:35 - Arrive at said internship, things requested to be done not done.....get even more frustrated.

1:50 - Decided to leave bec there is no reason to be there and you are in a bad mood about this mornings events anyway. OH and you are NOT getting paid to be there and internship credit is already complete. Why do you go? Bec you generally love your boss and the people you work with and seriously need an excuse to get away from the job search.

2:10 - Go to the library

2:25 - Check email again email friends, etc.

2:50 - Do homework - wonder again who had the bright idea that graduate school would be a good idea?

3:50 - Phone rings - yay! Chat with friend also in same predicament proceed to think of ways to get out of finding a job. Talk about the suckiness of the situation - laugh a bit!

4:25 - Call another friend - talk about job internship grad school bs

4:45 - Go back to the library - check email again (turns out this is a favorite past time)

5:00 - Check out one more website that your forgot you were going to check

5:15 - Ol' Mr. Frustration rears his head again - decide that that is it you are done for the day!

5:25 - Write Blog Entry

5:55 - Think about going to class and how not to go

6:00 - Serf the web - happy that you are not thinking about the future for once during the day

6:05 - Dinner - maybe a Powerbar maybe something on the way ...whatever

6:15 - Give up the dream of skipping class and reluctantly go

6:30 - Ugh! How boring - think once again for the 132498y4396283059 time that day how did I get here and am I really going to be a vegabond for the rest of my life?!?

7:00 - Start counting down the mins until class is over

7:15 - Still counting

8:00 - Only one more hour

845: - Did time stop?

9:00 - Freedom

9:05 - GO HOME

9:06 - Call mom (contemplate moving home and living in the basement) suggest this to mom - answer is no...wtf

9:20 - Home

9:25 - Whats on the tube

10:00: - Chat with friends

11:00 - More tube or phone time - think about reading a book....pass you are sick of reading ..school has ruined it

11:45 - Stop answering the phone - to tired

12:15 - Get ready for bed

12:45 - Can't sleep - read some homework thinking it will put you to sleep

1:15 - Finish a few chapters hey at least you got some stuff done!

1:20 - Try to sleep again

1:55 - Realize sleep is never going to happen bec you can not stop thinking about this that and the other thing

2:00 - Why did you not take some Tylenol PM at 11?

2:20ish - Fall asleep - have wierd dreams



And there you have it!