Thoughts On Leaving College

"It's graduation time, and more than four million college students are about to embark on a new phase of life. Some will find jobs, though there are 22% fewer vacant positions compared to last year. Others will go on to grad-school, postponing the job search a few more years.

Still others have no idea what they'll do. A guest column in last week's Sanlian Life Week captures the conflicted feelings of graduates as they go out into the world. It's written by Xiao He, a senior graduating from a teacher's college in Guilin, but it could just as easily have been written by a student in Beijing or Shanghai."

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