{"id":16789,"date":"2018-11-21T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16789"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T21:24:56","slug":"first-things-first-the-unnecessary-existential-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/11\/21\/first-things-first-the-unnecessary-existential-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"First Things First<\/em>: The unnecessary existential crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture this: You\u2019re on the floor thinking about how you haven\u2019t done anything special in your life while everyone else is living theirs way better than you ever could, and you feel like a failure. Sure, I\u2019m going to school,<\/i> you think, but everyone else does that. I\u2019m nothing special.<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You then think you must get through college or university as diligently as possible so that when you graduate you can finally start living your \u201cbest life.\u201d Guess what? You are living your best life!<\/p>\n

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First things First<\/em> is a column about issues pertaining to first-year students; it appears in every issue of Nexus<\/em> (illustration by Tiegan Suddaby).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cultural mindset of school is rapidly changing with the state of the job market. Graduates joke that their degrees are useless when looking for a job. I\u2019m no economics expert, but there\u2019s no denying that the common thought of \u201cdegree, then career, then life\u201d should be irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Some people starting school don\u2019t really know what they want to do; some do and are eager to pay to learn about their passions. Sometimes school just doesn\u2019t work out. Younger students don\u2019t realize post-secondary gives them more freedom in education than before.<\/p>\n

In the first years of school, you can experiment with new topics and schedules. You can treat yourself more as an individual and learn what you like; plus, some classes have free workshops or events anyone can join in. Want to learn about human anatomy for a few hours? Care to listen to some of Camosun\u2019s young and hip poets? You can do that!<\/p>\n

Remember that the meaning of life isn\u2019t to get a degree or a steady job (I mean, society is structured in a way that it\u2019s pretty impossible to not do that, but I digress). You\u2019re in college; make the best of it! Don\u2019t wait for life to be perfect; work isn\u2019t the be-all-end-all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture this: You\u2019re on the floor thinking about how you haven\u2019t done anything special in your life while everyone else is living theirs way better than you ever could, and you feel like a failure. Sure, I\u2019m going to school, you think, but everyone else does that. I\u2019m nothing special.\u00a0 You then think you must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-november-21-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16790,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16789\/revisions\/16790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}