So…..I’m new at this whole blogging thing but I promise you all that I will give it my best shot.

Sara has informed me to write about any thing in our field, well, what I was thinking about today was what my brother in law Matt and I had just chatted about. This topic may get me into trouble with some of my peers, but o well right? I like to stur the pot.

Matt & I were discussing my generation and how we have a skewed perception of the world. I let him talk to me about it a little but and I did give it some thought by the moment passed and I think something shiny caught my eye and triggered my ADD. Normally I would have brushed it off but then again on Sunday I was reminiscing with an old friend about high school, who is with who, who’s married, who has a family, etc……………. Then it struck the both of us, maybe people our age do have a misconception of what marriage is. Girls, do you think he’s going to turn out to be prince charming in real life? Odds are no. You’re going to fight, you’re going to get mad, feelings will get hurt but at the end of the day all you need is love and to remember that you made a vow…..forever. With divorce being so frequent these days it seems like when the going get rough……….there’s a lot more get going.

This leads me into a conversation that I just had with a past teacher of mine. I’d asked him to write me a letter of recommendation for grad school, he agreed, but wanted to sit down for a chat. At the end of our visit he told me how impressed he is with my ambition and my willingness to go get what I want. I guess this is in contrast to some of my peers and even those who I don’t know but who were referenced by my brother in law. Does my generation really just sit back and wait for a job to find them? Do we honestly expect to be making $100,000  right out of the gates of undergrad? Am I alone with  knowing what I want to do and doing whatever it takes to make that happen?