The Dead Diploma

My life is an epic.

My story is the most compelling, my struggles the most poignant, my victories the most inspiring.

It is with wry realization of the self-importance of blogging that I bring my own inconsequential tales to you. I know this blog will not change the world. This does not mean I will withhold its background to you.

I am a 22 year old male with all the potential and bravado of Mark Cuban and all the insecurity and fear of Holden Caufield. My life has had its shares of hardships, but none significant. I was born into a great, caring family. I was provided with a innocent childhood and a great education. I have been called a leader, a standout, and people have been excited for me. My life rose to its zenith in my senior year at my small private college. I was involved academically, professors knew me, I was in love, I had a great core of friends and a supportive family.

All this would be cocky if it weren't for my constant reminders as to my insignificance.

The day I left college, I stepped into the bold real world that every college student is ready to conquer and fix. My story is my immersion in this next stage of life, and I share it with the other contributors to this blog. The group of writers on this blog was a group of close friends in college who had everything under their control and are now learning how to cope with a life at the bottom, with friendships fractured by city, state, and country lines, with their accomplishments politely smiled at and forgotten by more important people.

The authors are made up of,

A marketing graduate working at a Starbucks and doing unpaid intern work for a marketing firm in Chicago,

• A marketing and Spanish graduate teaching English to students in Honduras
• A graphic design graduate screenprinting t-shirts in Kansas City
• A marketing student working construction in Dallas
• A graphic design graduate working as a junior creative in a Texas ad agency
• A marketing student finishing his final semester in school
• A graphic design graduate installing medical equipment in Chicago
• A digital media graduate looking for work in animation in LA
• A biology graduate attending medical school at Texas A&M

There is a lot of diversity in location, current job, and expertise. However, I believe we all share in the struggle of finding a foothold in the nascence of the rest of our lives.

There is little doubt that we all are confident of making an impact in our world, it is just the matter of struggling to find the right beginnings.