Dave by the Bell: What's Next, Graduate?

On this Dave on the Mall I’m wandering around the concourse after the first graduation ceremony December the 13th 2014 and I’m trying to find somebody to interview to ask them, “What does the future hold for you?” But as it would so happen everyone is talking to their family and all of the supportive people that came out to see them at graduation. So so far it’s kinda had to find somebody. I may just have to interrupt somebody from all their celebrating. We’ll see.

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Dave: On this Dave on the Mall I’m wandering around the concourse after the first graduation ceremony December the 13th 2014 and I’m trying to find somebody to interview to ask them, “What does the future hold for you?” But as it would so happen everyone is talking to their family and all of the supportive people that came out to see them at graduation. So so far it’s kinda had to find somebody. I may just have to interrupt somebody from all their celebrating. We’ll see.

Voice 1: The future for me hopefully holds going to get a job at a zoo and helping animals alot or opening my own wildlife resuce. I studied environmental biology.

Voice 2: Lets see...hopefully something big. I’m gonna be going into a police department and hopefully I can work my way up into the F.B.I.

Voice 3: I’m going to say I plan on going to graduate school but I just decided to postpone so that I can get a job and get more field experience so I can reaffirm my commitment to grad school.

Voice 4: Changing the World.

Voice 5: Excitement and Adventure!

Voice 6: Well I have a few job offers as a math interventionist or possibly filling in for maternity leave.

Voice 7: A teaching position in kindergarten first or second grade.

Voice 8: I’m going to be looking for work doing editing and publishing which is within my major technical writing.

Voice 9: Thanks to Susan Weinberg in the English Department I was able to get an editorial internship with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill so that’s what I’m doing after school.

Voice 10: Right now going out to Colorado to go ski for a couple of years.

Voice 11: Oh God...this is terrible but I’m going to take a break for a while and then hopefully go to graduate school.

Voice 12: I am working at a community college and I’m hoping to broaden my horizons maybe at a university or with a city job.

Voice 13: You don’t wanna ask me that question. I’m going to be a hobo.

Voice 14: Look for internships and grad school.

Voice 15: Lots of Spanish.

Voice 16: Good question.

Voice 17: I hopefully will find a job. Other than that I’m going home and enjoying time with my parents.

Voice 18: Ohhhh That’s a million dollar question. I’m not really just. I am just trying to revel in this moment right now.

Thanks to: Hannah, Adam, Michael, Richard, Natalie, Jessica, Sabrina, Thomas, Adalisa, Hillary Devon, Brittany, Rebecca, Ian, Cynthia and Eli.

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