By Natalie Hill, centerspread editor

With all of the hoopla of college approaching for this year’s seniors, of course I’m thinking about my future. Yes, I want to be an artist, graphic design in advertisement, if you want to be detailed. I want to go to college and get a diploma and work for a few years before “settling down”.

Sound familiar? Yeah… Isn’t that what everyone else is saying too? That’s what I thought. I’m going to college and graduating because that’s what I SHOULD do. It’s expected that a perfectly capable young woman gain a career status and then she can eventually be married.
Don’t get me wrong, I do want to learn and work. I want to have a career for a little bit, but (and I’m probably going to type myself into a hole for saying this) is it THAT bad just to….not? Is that bad just to get your life started right out of leaving high school?

I have a feeling that this will be hard to explain…

They say that it’s really hard to get a decent job without a college education. Now I don’t know the statistics of that, but I do know that a lot of kids DO get married young, and sadly even though their marriage ends in divorce most of the time, they manage to make it work for a few years. I have respect for those people. Apparently it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, so if you can survive, start a life and have a family without living under your parent’s umbrella for any long amount of time, bravo.

I know eventually I’m going to be a wife and a mom. I want to be a wife and a mom. I also want to go to college and work for a little bit before I do that. But if I met Mr. Right who was financially stable, would it be so bad if I dove headfirst into life? No… It wouldn’t be that bad.

I do feel like I’ve typed myself into the hole I mentioned earlier. But think you can connect with what I’m saying, readers…right? Anyone?…