My Grandsons Asked…

How do you know if a school is good or not?
How do you get a job?
How do you plan for life after college?

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Check out the cheerleaders.

You should have a job already.

There is no plan.

You just take your best shot and pray.

And remember

this is very important.

Are you listening?

Nana says your brain isn’t fully formed

before you are like twenty-four years old.

By the time I was twenty-four,

I had already flunked out of college

served four years in the military

gotten a job at IBM headquarters

and had a bride of my own.

To be honest,

looking back,

kinda wish

I had skipped all of that.