Introductions

Hi World Wide Web. This first post will just be a chance for us to get to know each other. The first thing you need to know about me is that I am starting my second semester of my senior year of college. I want to use this blog as a place to release my stress over the whole "deciding what I'm going to do with the rest of my life" thing. Since I've been spending a lot of the time at the Career Education Center on campus, I've perfected my "Elevator Speech", so here it goes!

Hello. My name is Megan **** and I'm a senior Anthropology Major at **** University (Got to be somewhat anonymous). During my college career, I have served as the Publicity Director for several on-campus student theater productions as well as acted in several plays. I am currently serving as the Publicity Director for the **** Film Festival on campus, working to actively recruit student film makers for the event. I would like to combine my background in Anthropology and the arts to work as a documentary film maker. I recently had the chance to help assemble press packets and work on publicity for a documentary world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this month and I look forward to learning more about this exciting field.

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It's Saturday night. I woke up around 11:30 am this morning and then spent the entire day doing two things: Watching back-to-back-to-back movies on HBO and playing guitar. Poorly. See, I've always had this secret (well, not too secret to anyone who knows me) dream of being a rockstar. After obsessively internet stalking Taylor Swift for about a year, I finally bought a guitar last summer. She's beautiful. I named her Julia. Only problem is, I don't really know how to play her. Aside from five Taylor Swift songs and half of a Shania Twain song, I've got nothing. I made it a New Years Resolution to try to play some on-campus open mic nights at this coffee shop which hosts them, and maybe even create a MySpace page to put videos up, but so far that hasn't happened.

I'm so stressed about graduating. I think a lot of it comes from the fact that while I'm considering documentary film making, I'm not really sure what I am going to be doing come June 1st. I've applied to teach English in Japan for a year, and I've got a profile up online looking for jobs as an au pair (nanny), but I don't really know what I want to be doing right away. Last semester I was at the Career Education Center every week trying to prepare to job hunt. Now that I've started hunting, it looks fairly bleak.

No matter how well-meaning they are, whenever friends and family ask what I'm doing when I graduate, I kind of want to kick them. Not hard. Just a little tiny kick in the shins. Then there is the inevitable question: What does one do with an Anthropology major? And then they ask about whether or not I want to work in a museum (no), study tribes in New Guinea (no), or dig up bones (no.... and that's Archeology, thank you...). So what do I want to do? Well, since I think being a rockstar is probably out, I've got to work on that one...

What do YOU want to do?

Peace,
Megan