Graduates of America's colleges expect great things according to a recent Gallop survey of students scheduled to enter the workforce this year. A poll of over 2,000 recent graduates indicated that hopes were high and negatives were downplayed when considering the futures of those questioned.
According to data released today, young persons ready to begin the next phase of their lives expect to earn between $100, 000 and a cajillion dollars in their first year of employment, regardless of major, grades, aptitude, or job prospects. "We're gonna take this world by storm," quipped Marsha Bodson, a May graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey. "I'm going to make money and be ridiculously happy, or whatever," she added at Saturday's commencement ceremony. Ms. Bodson, a 16th-century Belgian Poetry major, expects to find work as a president of "some company", or to become, "famous, or infamous, whichever pays better," she said.
Guy Gonzales, a Farm Implement and Manures Specialist, put an emphasis on personal improvement as the stuff of which his dreams are made. "I know what a college degree is going to mean to me: I'm finally going to be good-looking. Not just well-groomed--I'm actually looking at being handsome for the first time in my life." Sheryl Boinkin, a Pre-Law student with her sights set on law school in the fall, listed her great expectations in order of importance. "Psychological solidity, increased upper-body strength, my own flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and power over space, time, logic, and beings."
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