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1. After the influx of graduation cash, nobody will want to give you handouts anymore. Including your parents. So enjoy it while it lasts.
2. Jobs SEEM like they’re a pass/fail class. . .
3. . . . until it turns out you should have been working for that promotion all along.
4. Get ready to start paying taxes
5. And paying for things like water.
6. Your college boyfriend has either become unemployed and lazy. . .
7. . . . or a high-flying corporate psychopath.
8. You’re working too late to enjoy happy hour or going out…
9. Which is fine, because you can’t afford a New York City cocktail, even at half-price.
10. But every now and then, something amazing will happen. . .
11. And you’ll realize that you really are going to make it, after all.
12. And you’ll see that your best friends never truly leave you, no matter how far away they are.
Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale are best friends who, after graduating from Brown University in 2007, made a pact to stay in touch via brutally honest weekly emails about the ups and downs of their post-grad lives. GRADUATES IN WONDERLAND: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults (Gotham Books, May 6, 2014) is a coming-of-age story told through their most intimate emails as they travel around the world.
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