I Graduated...So What's Next????? | Life Updates and Q&A Episode

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[00:00:27] to be linked in the description. So I'm officially a college graduate? What? Well,

[00:00:33] by the time this episode is up, I'll officially be a college graduate. Today I'm recording this

[00:00:39] on a Sunday. As you could probably tell by now my recording days are Sunday, but I had my first

[00:00:45] graduation on this past Thursday, but I have my next graduation in two days on Tuesday.

[00:00:52] Yes, I have two graduations. A little bit confusing, especially when I explain to people

[00:00:57] that I'm technically graduating twice while actually graduating three times by the time

[00:01:03] Tuesday is over. It's just, it's confusing. Okay. I will be explaining the whole multiple

[00:01:09] graduation thing in a few, okay? Cause this is going to be a Q&A and life updates or

[00:01:15] whatever episode. I'll be explaining that in a few, but I figured, you know, I haven't

[00:01:19] done a Q&A life update episode in a long time. Probably the last time I did it was last year

[00:01:26] and we're halfway, about halfway through 2024. And on top of that, me just hitting this big

[00:01:33] milestone and graduating from undergrad is kind of like, I should, I have, I'm required

[00:01:41] to do a Q&A life update episode. So I asked you guys over on Instagram via polls,

[00:01:48] via notes, like all these, all these new Instagram features out here. I'm trying to use them so I

[00:01:56] can, I don't know, see how they work, see what works for me. But I did notes and I did polls

[00:02:00] over on the stories. You know, I didn't even have to do all of that because when I posted

[00:02:05] like the videos and the pictures on my Instagram stories of me graduating, you guys

[00:02:09] automatically DM'd me congratulations and a bunch of questions after that. So all those

[00:02:16] questions that you guys asked over on Instagram is what I'm going to be answering in this episode.

[00:02:20] And because many of you guys also ask similar questions, I'm going to be doing it kind of by

[00:02:26] topic in a way instead of asking each individual question so it's not repetitive. Before I get

[00:02:32] into answering these questions, I do just want to say briefly thank you so, so much for all of

[00:02:38] the congratulations and the well wishes and all of your responses over on Instagram. I'm feeling

[00:02:45] the love. I'm feeling the appreciation and I'm honestly very, very thankful for that.

[00:02:50] You guys have been here for, wow, I started this podcast literally summer of junior year.

[00:03:01] I started this like in my, towards the end of my sophomore year and to basically make it all

[00:03:08] the way till senior year with you guys has been like a two and a half, three year journey.

[00:03:13] It's just honestly insane to me and I'm just grateful that you guys got to see me grow,

[00:03:18] got to see me through my ups and downs and giving me advice from time to time

[00:03:24] through my DMs. And I just want to say thank you so, so much for being there with me and

[00:03:29] for me every step of the way in any way you guys could. I really do appreciate you guys.

[00:03:34] Now I'm going to be spilling what's going to be happening in the next few months,

[00:03:38] what's going on, what I've been doing, what I'm thinking and this and that and the other. So

[00:03:43] get ready as we go on to the first question. Now that I've graduated,

[00:03:47] many of you guys have asked what's next? And my answer to that is what isn't next?

[00:03:54] There are so many possibilities out there for me. There's so many plans that I have.

[00:03:59] There's just a lot that's going to be happening and I'm excited for it.

[00:04:03] And the thing is there's so many things that I have thought of to do. There's so

[00:04:06] many things that I've wanted to do in my last year specifically in my senior year,

[00:04:11] but I've had to wait up until this point till I've graduated to be able to do those things

[00:04:15] because you know going to school full time that takes up a lot of my time and then on top of

[00:04:20] that I have this hour and a half practically two-hour commute half the time. And it's just

[00:04:24] hard to be able to balance everything but now that I don't have to worry about that for the

[00:04:30] next few months, I'm able to actually put these things into action. So as many of you guys

[00:04:35] probably know, I am a freelancer. I'm a freelance content marketer and I've been doing that since

[00:04:41] my sophomore year but that was after I started this podcast. I started this podcast first and

[00:04:46] then I eventually became a freelancer a few short months after that. And you know I've

[00:04:53] been consistently working with the same people for the past few years and there's just this

[00:05:00] level of trust that's there that it seems like they want to keep me on and I think I'm

[00:05:06] going to keep doing that. I'm going well I don't think I know I'm going to keep doing that

[00:05:12] and they want to give me more responsibility so I definitely want to take on that responsibility

[00:05:19] and to learn more and to grow more in my career. So I have a lot of plans to learn

[00:05:24] a lot within marketing. I'm especially going to be doing certifications, I'm going to be

[00:05:28] taking courses, there's a lot of things that I'm going to be doing within that realm in these

[00:05:34] next few months. And also I will be going to grad school so I'm actually going to be taking

[00:05:40] a break. I'm not going right away. I would have actually had to apply by April by May

[00:05:49] and that was just not going to work out for me. I decided that trying to apply for

[00:05:55] graduate school and work and do this podcast and school it just wasn't going to work out well for

[00:06:02] me. So I've decided also that it would be best for me to take a semester off so I will not be

[00:06:08] going to school for the rest of this year. Taking a break to learn more in the field of

[00:06:13] marketing, learn more about what I want to do and you know actually take a break. And during

[00:06:19] that time I will be applying to graduate school. I want to be a brand manager,

[00:06:24] that's the ultimate goal. I want to have my own branding agency, that is the dream. And I

[00:06:31] am going to be taking little steps now, little actions to be able to get to that point.

[00:06:37] And I think that graduate school is a great networking opportunity for me and also a great

[00:06:43] place for me to learn as well as gain access to resources that I would otherwise not have

[00:06:48] if I weren't there. So for a grad school I'm really only applying to like three or four schools,

[00:06:55] not too many. And I want to go the brand management and international business and or

[00:07:02] brand management marketing international business realm. Okay I'm going to be providing

[00:07:07] more updates with that as time goes on so you guys can stay up to date with it because

[00:07:12] I'm not going to lie to you even right now the picture really isn't that clear

[00:07:17] but anything relating to brand management marketing or international business that's

[00:07:22] like what I'm currently exploring and that's what I'm going to be applying to.

[00:07:26] And in terms of where I end up we'll see. Future India will let you know about that.

[00:07:32] And also I will be taking a trip, I am going to London, it is official. I've been asking,

[00:07:39] well from time to time I've been asking questions about yeah like you know is $2,100

[00:07:46] too expensive to pay for a hotel but then again it is London and it's literally summer.

[00:07:50] Obviously everything is going to be more expensive but I've been dropping little tiny

[00:07:55] hints that I was going to be going somewhere and it's official, hotel is paid, flight is

[00:08:00] paid. Like we are literally going to London in three weeks. June 17th is when I leave so

[00:08:11] I'm going with my mom and actually one of you guys over on my Instagram lives in London and

[00:08:17] was like yeah like if you pull up just let me know I could show you around and I'm like

[00:08:20] girl please thank you needed that and I was supposed to let her know that was actually

[00:08:26] going to happen. I didn't but I will be letting her know in the next few days that this is real

[00:08:34] and this is officially going to happen. So if you guys have been to London or if you guys live

[00:08:38] in London and there are places you know that me as an American tourist should see or me as

[00:08:45] an American tourist should know especially about public transportation please give me tips,

[00:08:49] give me places, give me ideas. My DMs are open just feel free to hit me up and let me know.

[00:08:54] I'm super excited about that and make sure you follow me on my socials because I will also be

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[00:09:32] gang. Now for the question that I was talking about earlier why two graduations? Let me

[00:09:38] explain so I technically go to two schools but hear me out so I go to Acuny the City

[00:09:45] University of New York but when I applied there was this honors program technically an

[00:09:54] honors college it's like a literal separate college however it's connected to the CUNY system

[00:10:04] so think of it as you're in a school let's say I'm in a CUNY school there are different

[00:10:09] honors programs I am one of the honors programs I was because I graduated I was in one of the

[00:10:18] honors programs for that particular school that I went to but the unique thing about that

[00:10:28] honors program and is that it's literally a separate college like it's an honors college so

[00:10:37] it's honors program but with its own building if that makes sense so because I attend that

[00:10:43] honors college I applied for that honors college I am a student at that I was see I gotta get

[00:10:51] used to that now I was a student at that honors college literally has its own building

[00:10:58] I would go there for events I would go there for performances and stuff I technically was also

[00:11:02] supposed to take classes there there's four seminar classes that I had to take there for

[00:11:06] my minor that we don't talk about because I didn't choose that minor but it's a minor

[00:11:12] that I technically have but seminar classes for the minor that I had for that honors college

[00:11:19] I technically was supposed to do that but you know the pandemic COVID everything was shut down

[00:11:24] I took that online so I never actually took those classes at that honors college but I've

[00:11:28] been to that honors college before so technically I'm a student at that college but because they

[00:11:32] don't have actual majors like me being an entrepreneurship major just because they don't

[00:11:37] have those majors like accounting finance art history english stuff like that like they don't

[00:11:44] have actual majors there I have to go to the CUNY to take classes for my major but because

[00:11:52] I'm registered classes there that college that CUNY sees me as a student there as well

[00:11:58] so I'm also I was also technically a student at that college so honors college is where I'm

[00:12:07] actually a student at and then by default the CUNY sees me as a student there because

[00:12:12] I took classes for my major at that college so I have the graduation from that honors college

[00:12:18] which you guys have seen last Thursday and then I have the graduation for this CUNY which

[00:12:24] is coming up this Tuesday which or this past Tuesday does that make sense so I technically

[00:12:30] go to two colleges so I have two graduations which I honestly deserve because I didn't have a

[00:12:36] proper high school graduation so not complaining about that and then there's like the little

[00:12:41] third graduation as well they have like special little groups within the school that

[00:12:47] host their own graduations because at the actual CUNY's graduation we don't walk across

[00:12:52] the stage so you have like these little groups these little groups or whatever like clubs and such

[00:12:57] that had their own little graduations where you could actually walk across the stage and

[00:13:01] get your name called so that was the third graduation that I attended earlier last week so

[00:13:07] my point here is multiple colleges multiple graduations if you're still confused about that

[00:13:13] you could just hit me up and ask me and I'll try my best to re-explain that to you

[00:13:17] and shockingly enough people asked if I wore heels to my graduation and if I was the tallest

[00:13:23] person there yes of course I wore heels to my graduation I'm a big advocate for literally anyone

[00:13:29] especially tall people to wear heels but I was not the tallest one there well to be fair

[00:13:36] the heels weren't even really that high there were only two inch block heels because I didn't

[00:13:40] want to go that crazy I think my biggest fear was walking across that stage and falling flat

[00:13:45] on my face and because I have long legs that is more likely to happen so I decided to get heels

[00:13:51] that were on the shorter side and even practiced in them just to make sure because heels and I

[00:13:58] are not the best of friends and you know I honestly didn't mind not being the tallest one

[00:14:03] out there but don't get me wrong I absolutely love my height I love standing out from the

[00:14:08] crowd but blending in from time to time is also kind of nice and some of you guys have

[00:14:13] also asked about what's going to happen with this podcast even though I've graduated and I'm

[00:14:18] entering full-fledged adulthood a tall girls podcast is here to stay like y'all are not

[00:14:24] getting rid of me literally let me stop but I will be continuing to do this podcast okay

[00:14:29] I am not going anywhere anytime soon this podcast is literally my pride my joy my baby

[00:14:36] there are a lot of things that I want to do with the tall girls podcast I want to do more

[00:14:40] interviews with tall clothing business owners and tall creators maybe even start a newsletter hint

[00:14:47] hint maybe some merch I don't know we'll see there's a lot of projects that I want to work on

[00:14:53] there's a lot I've thought about in the past few months actually in terms of the content that

[00:14:59] I want to produce not just for this podcast but also for my social medias as well there's

[00:15:04] just a lot of things that I've been thinking about and I want to try them out and see how

[00:15:10] they will work for me if they will work for me if they will also work for you guys because you guys

[00:15:14] are also a big part of this and just see what happens from it you know I feel like everything

[00:15:18] is worth a try so I want to try it out and I want to make it you know like an actual thing

[00:15:24] like I want to actually make this I mean this podcast look is a thing but you know what I

[00:15:27] mean I want to make this like a thing thing but now that school is over and I'm not going

[00:15:31] to be going back for the next couple of months I have the opportunity to just really

[00:15:35] be able to focus on this and for the last question that many people have asked

[00:15:40] do I have any doubts and concerns oh 110% I honestly don't know what graduate doesn't have

[00:15:49] any doubts or concerns about their future I mean we're entering this very new chapter in our

[00:15:55] lives and it's kind of hard to not be like you know am I going to be okay am I going to

[00:16:00] survive and you know I've decided that I'm going to tell myself what I tell the tall girl

[00:16:05] community everything is going to be okay just have that confidence in yourself that you will

[00:16:10] do just fine and everything is going to work out you know especially with school being such

[00:16:15] a big part of my identity I know that it's going to be kind of hard to switch from that

[00:16:20] or take that shift from that part of my life and I know it's going to take a lot of time

[00:16:27] but there's going to be a lot of things I'm going to have to work through in terms of like

[00:16:31] slight post-grad anxiety and also anxiety revolving around exams and homework and stuff

[00:16:38] because there's going to be moments like oh my gosh and I have homework to do oh my gosh and

[00:16:41] there are tests like girl you literally graduated two months ago what are you doing so I know

[00:16:46] that there's going to be a lot to work through with that but you know I think that

[00:16:51] in the six months that I have off in order to really focus on myself and focus on my life

[00:16:56] I think that I will be okay so yes I do have some doubts and I do have some concerns

[00:17:03] but honestly I'm just not too worried about that and I'm going to try my best in everything

[00:17:08] that I do and I have faith that everything will fall into place so yeah that's a little bit

[00:17:15] of the life updates and Q&A and stuff I really do appreciate it if you made it to the

[00:17:20] end I know that I rambled a lot in this episode but you know what's great y'all asked and I gave

[00:17:25] period but if you have any other questions for me relating to what I'm going to be doing in my

[00:17:30] future or anything that I said in this episode feel free to hit me up all of my socials

[00:17:34] is going to be linked in the description anyway so you can just click on it and head on over

[00:17:38] there and I'm excited to see what this new chapter has and I'm excited to bring you guys

[00:17:44] along with me so stay tuned for that and yeah I'll catch you in the next one good night and goodbye