The School Bells Are Ringing

The new school year is coming up fast. Since the time that I started college, I have usually looked forward to the new school year with eager anticipation. While I do look forward to being rid of the monotony of the summer, are a few things about the new semester that I'm a bit concerned about.

First off, I will be a fifth year senior. This means that, in addition to being among the student population who can't seem to graduate, that the vast majority of the friends I have made have left one way or another. Then they were replaced by younger people. I smell conspiracy here. Perhaps I should start my own conspiracy and take the underclassmen under my wing. Yeah, that's about right.

Anyways, this semester I will be taking a general education class that requires one to do a volunteer project. Now I have nothing against volunteer work, but from what I have seen this class seems to be structured in such a way that three fourths of all volunteer ideas. Also, it seems there is a lot of fluffy-good-feel stuff with this class. How the heck would I know? We had to submit proposals in the spring for the projects. It had questions like, "Name three goals you have with this project." Truthful answers:

1. To pass this class.

The third concern I have is this semester I need to buckle down, create a resume, some cover letters, the rest of the stuff that you need to do to get a job and, finally, find a job. This could be interesting.