'I Just Graduated. What's the Point?'

You worked hard to get here. Now your work is to take your emotions, your ideals, and your questions very seriously and learn from them.

Premier Péril (1950), Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

I graduated Magna Cum Laude from my university last month. After four years of working 50+ hours a week at a restaurant job to barely scrape by with enough to pay bills and burning the candle at both ends to make sure my 15-credit-hour semesters were not in vain, you would think that I would feel accompli…