#1 — Your GPA matters. (It doesn’t.)
There are so many people with perfect GPAs still roaming the streets, and people with under 3.0s working in big tech. Prioritize practical skills, likability (your personality), and effective communication over chasing a perfect GPA. Those qualities open bigger doors than your grades ever will.
#2 — You deserve a job because you have a degree. (No, you don’t.)
Just because you paid $180,000 and sat in a building for four years doesn’t guarantee you anything. Your degree might open doors, but you still have to walk through them. And the ones who successfully do are the people who put in work outside the classroom to secure their future.
You need to understand we were lied to, told that all we had to do was go to college, study, graduate, and companies would line up on our asses. That worked for our parents and grandparents. It doesn’t anymore.
#3 You need to have everything figure out by graduation. (You don’t)
If you look around at any graduation crowd, 90% of people there have no concrete plans after there. They’re just putting one foot in front of the other, and that’s fine. Most are still exploring, pivoting, or realizing they don’t even want to do what their degree says they should.
Finding your purpose takes time. A few people discover it early, but most figure it out along the way.
Remember, If college was supposed to guarantee success, everyone graduating would be successful.
