According to Cosmo (insert Jay Leno's "my bible" joke here), a new study shows that recent college grads are more likely to be depressed than their older counterparts.
Now, speaking from my personal experience - I felt it myself in the first year after graduation. After having been in a place where I lived on my own (well, so to speak, with several peer roommates) with maybe two to three hours of class a day (I remember distinctly thinking I had no idea how I'd gotten through one day of high school because more than four hours of class seemed intolerable) to come back to live with my parents (as many of us do - for those of us who don't - money is ubertight) and go back to the 9-5 M-F grind if we were lucky enough to even find a (guarantee-ably low-paying) job felt like a step backwards - or at least a step into a much less happy place than the permanent spring break trip that, at times, college is.
(Sidenote: yes, I really really like parentheses. They are almost my favorite punctuation mark, second only to the beloved dash.)
The real world is rough. The transition is brutal. My question is this - is there anything that can ease the blow? Is circumstance the sole cause of depression? What can we do to eliminate these college grad blues?
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I also found it a hard adjustment, and suffered through most of my first year on my own. It was pretty awful for the most part, especially since I had been in school for 6 years. I really think that colleges need to focus more on life preparation. Too many students assume they're going to graduate and make tons of money. College kind of perpetuates that myth, unfortunately. Oh well, at least most people discover the real world eventually. Let the youngsters have their fun before they become working stiffs like the rest of us.
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