You've graduated: Now go shape your world

You knew this day would come. It's your graduation day. Some of you will embrace it. Some of you have dreaded it. In either case, it's here now and you probably have only one thing on your mind; What do you do now!?!

I'll spare you all the flowery cliches and the over used "it's your world now" dogma. The fact of the matter is that you are entering a world as graduates, which is unlike anything anyone can reminisce about. Don't take it too hard that the road maps to life which we might provide for you are outdated and nearly useless to you. I suggest that the challenges before you are what your further education was really all about. If you had wanted to slip easily into a precut groove, you would probably have opted against furthering your education in the first place. However, you didn't avoid the challenge. For that I applaud you. Now, let's get down to brass tacks.