"I don't know how to describe my current emotional state," Anne Paik, a newly minted high school graduate bound for the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote recently in a post to The Choice.
This may not overtly be the conversation that goes on in a family of a high school graduate bound for college, but it could certainly be going on in their minds.
Yet thanks to that expensive education, over the course of their lives college graduates are bound to recoup all the money they spent getting their degree – and much more, says the New York Fed.
Yet, many of my generation's young graduates are bound to realize, after a while on their jobs, that there is a great deal more to learn in order to keep up with the increasing demands of their professions.
Rachel Stewart, a fine arts graduate from Pittsburgh, bound for Los Angeles, produced a drawing tablet and sketched a portrait of Justin Prather, a political campaign worker from Austin.
Back in 2006, during the murder investigation of Imette St. Guillen, a graduate student found bound off the Belt Parkway after leaving a Soho bar, Kelly "dumped" the phones of detectives to figure out who had been talking to reporters.
Juliette Meanwhile, from the window of her well-appointed apartment, Juliette (Clotilde Hesme), a graduate student (probably) bound for a career in academia, witnesses the hit-and-run car accident.
With a student body that is 98 percent black or Hispanic, with 80 percent of its students requiring financial aid, virtually every graduating senior was bound for college: Penn, Cincinnati, Holy Cross, Fairfield, Iona.
"A shirt that says girls are smart is cute because it stands up for girls," said Tiffany Herbst, 18, a graduate of Byram Hills High School bound for the State University of New York at Oneonta.
While not as numerous, "gappers," bound for graduate school are following suit.
Whatever your current opinion of graduate school, you're bound to find that you have learned a thing or two over the years.
