I always thought that after my final classes ended I would have more free time. In the darkest moments of studying for our last exams or in the earliest hours of finishing that final term paper, graduates desperately cling to the idea that come the end of semester, we will finally be free to sleep at a decent hour, watch that Netflix series we’ve been waiting for, or see what the sun looks like for once. I hate to break it to you undergrads, but this falsehood of a future couldn’t be further from the truth.
Do not be fooled by the promises summer brings after graduation. Life can have you wrapped around its lying little finger just as easily in summer as it does during your school years. Projects and prior commitments litter your schedule, leaving little room for relaxation or recharging activities.
All I wanted was to pick up a good book and be able to read more than three pages in peace without remembering that I either have somewhere to be or something else I should be doing. Beware that the student life is never over; it follows you everywhere.
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