Eddie, a character from the book Five Things You Meet in Heaven, wants to be engineer so he can “build things.”
Cool. I took up engineering course several years back because I just wanted to have an important appendage before my name. Today, I’m a fresh graduate of Industrial Engineering course. So, all things considered, can I now build things? Que Horror! The only thing I can effortlessly build is a paper boat or plane.
After college, the only thing I can probably do is to type fast without looking down on my keyboard. And, oh yeah, how to sound reasonably rational when ask during interviews.
There’s really no point in this entry but to show you fellas how monochrome life has been after graduation. Nope, it’s not true life is exciting after school. It probably holds true to some, but not to many. Why should it excites everyone when after stepping out of school it also means stepping in the rat race. Why should it gives everyone wondrous epiphanies when after graduation you’re tagged as graduates, yes, but you’re also labeled Mr. Unemployed just the same?
My only consolation with this new routine (or lack thereof) is I’m able to go back reading. So far I’ve finished two tomes, and the list is piling up:
The Open Channel by Jill Morrow
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Rift in Time by Michael Phillips
The Laws Of Our Fathers by Scott Turow
Moments… by Fr. Jerry M. Orbos, SVD
The Millennium Stories by Frank Mihalic, SVD
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
I’m planning to read as much as I can before I’ll be working my ass off. So, what about you, what have you been doing after school?
