My final quarter of college starts tomorrow, and I've got this general vague feeling of apprehension about the whole thing, because suddenly in three months, I'll be a graduate with a B.S. in Biochemistry and that's about it. I still, in spite of numerous e-mails and phone calls, have not heard from the one job, so I'm unfortunately going to have to give it up for bust, I think.

At this point in time I do intend to go to graduate school, but I definitely want to take at least a year off and get myself situated on my own two feet before I go charging into that. But a lot of the jobs I've been looking at are the sort that seem to require having an M.A. or higher -- and it's sort of disheartening when at the moment, your B.S. (and even then, it's incomplete) is the only thing you can offer in terms of schooling. I've had counselors tell me that "just getting the degree counts for a lot," which is encouraging, but doesn't seem to reflect what I see employers wanting.

Graduation is a simultaneously exhilirating and terrifying prospect, and right now I'm just sort of hoping to keep my head above the waters before I get stripped of the parental safety net.