Navigating life after graduation from any sort of academic institution is a tricky business. It's one thing to graduate from high school and see buddies before they ship off to their sprawling college in the middle of the desert; it's quite another to leave school where most of your friend group will scatter in the world, doing different things, without concrete chance of seeing them again.

I  vividly remember the period leading up to graduation as being an anxiety-ridden time. Anybody about to leave the plush bubble of academia should rightly be anxious about their future, even if they have their next step already nicely laid out. As such, I've got a few nuggets of wisdom to humbly toss in any graduating individual's way.