Give A Grad A Chance - Fruitless Search?

Hello out there!
Greetings to the outside - the so-called 'real' world - I suppose I should introduce myself since before this summer 2009 I was not a resident of the 'real' world, I was a comfy cozy citizen of the world of academia.

Let me explain, up until June 2009 I was a university student. My life a small sphere of class, study, friends and family all coalescing and interacting.

Don't they usually say hind sight is 20-20 - well hind sight also wears a pair of rose coloured glasses. I thought my life was stressed - heck what could be more stressful than essays, lab reports and exams?!

We were talking about the rest of my life here...right? All that mattered was getting the grade...right? everything after that would fall into place (check off each: high powered Career, money, Potential Husband, cars, downtown urban young professional life style...) right?

wrong.

well not quite wrong but definitely rosy-coloured misleading statements.

I did the work, suffered the stress, got the (somewhat) decent grades for four years. that was my life and I enjoyed it.

Approach June 2009 - Convocation - the end and a start of a new journey - "enter the world, prepared to make a diffence, an impact and be the change you want to see in the world" to quote the Dean (whom I had never seen in my 4 year academic life, maybe he was sitting in the back of my 1000 person biology class...) quoting Ghandi. As circuitious as it sounds it's, approximately, what every graduate hears on the last day of their careers. And I was Ready to make the difference. I wanted to enter into the 'real' world and be the change.

ok, great.

fast forward 4 months and I have one questions for good ol' dean never-seen-you-before-in-my-life...

how?

how can i be the change, how can i make the difference?

I want it all! who doesn't?

What's the first step! where do i start?

So - here I am and Here I go...

follow me, if you please, on a journey most mysterious, most scary and unknown...the thousand mile journey begins with one step - follow my steps towards my First Step.

maybe i'll answer my questions, check off a few of the dream catagories and maybe make a difference...

intelligently yours,

graduate