Run David Run: Not a Documentary

First, I am stealing this title from a recent documentary i watched: Run Ricky Run.

Lame, YES, fitting, YES.

I’m standing in line. D12. I can’t even figure out if I’m in the right spot. Roughly 900 students are graduating. What is everyone going to do when they graduate? I wonder if anyone else is thinking this same thing? I don’t know anyone who has a job already. OK, i know a few, but not many. We are all about to pass through an arch. An arch of opportunity. Is it?

I’m wondering because I’m in the same boat. We all are. Sink or swim is approaching. How many will sink? How many will choose fields that mean nothing to their degree? How many of us have skated through college?

In Run Ricky Run, Williams describes himself as he retired from the NFL “I was growing personally, but i wasn’t being productive in my life in any way.” I’m guessing some of the students who will pass through that arch tomorrow are thinking the same thing. Many have grown personally over the last 4 years of their life. Learning what they like/love/hate. Many of them know that their major of choice was a mask. A mask to impress those who needed impressed. I could throw out a statistic describing how many graduates go into their selected field, but whats the point? We all know that most will not. Read more »