Where are you going to college? Who are you rooming with? What scholarships did you apply for? People ask me these questions all the time and they seem so affronted when I tell them that I have no plans for college. At least not right now; and speaking for all those seniors who don’t have plans for college either, that’s OK. We are still going places.

There is such a stigma thrust upon us as seniors to go to college as soon as we leave high school. I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard ‘If you wait to go to college, you’ll never end up going.’ We cannot be defined by generalizations about our generation. To insinuate that we’re going nowhere in life just because college isn’t at the top of our priorities right now is ludicrous.

I do have plans for my life. I’m moving out, getting married, and starting my life. I can’t do those things well if my all my concentration, time and, most importantly, money is tied up in college. They don’t know my life.

If someone thinks that we have no direction in our lives because we’re not a college bound grad, they’re sadly mistaken. I couldn’t be happier with my choice of paths. I will not be pressured to do what the rest of the class is doing. I will live my life the way I want.

By Sam Dulaney