List of Stuff That Karlie Could Possibly Do Now That It's Time to Do Life
1. Sublet in Burlington: live with people you don't know and will probably dislike because you kind of suck, and edit videos of college graduations on a couch in the apartment. All day. Meanwhile, figure out where you're going in the fall.
2. Go Home: sit on your couch editing videos of college graduations and recount the amazing places that your friends from home have all gone off to. Hang out with folks that are either much older or much younger than you.
3. Go Anywhere: you have six months before you have to start paying off your loans. Move somewhere. You can live anywhere for a year. You can do anything for a year. Go somewhere and find a weird job and just do life for a while. But... don't go alone. Coerce some of your equally unprepared-for-life friends to go with you.
4. Teach for America: good in theory, but they're not going to take you because you have an education degree. Woops, TSEF America. Let's not encourage teachers to work in schools that need them.
5. City Year: Go do the opposite of living in Vermont and try to contribute something to an inner-city school. Undoubtedly you will learn a gargantuan amount in this experience, about teaching, about yourself, about inequality... it will probably be depressing and invigorating.
6. Americorps: Go do anything, anywhere, and have a support system. And defer your loans. And contribute to the betterment of civilization.
7. Get a music teaching job in Vermont: And then never leave.
8. Get a music teaching job anywhere else: and then likely abandon them too soon, before you can impact or grow the music program.
This list will hopefully grow... hopefully soon considering that at the end of May I will no longer have a house. Accepting suggestions. All of y'all do cool things and know people that do cool things, so please do share.
Of course, everything will change by the time I actually need to make a move. It always does. And that is life.
