I am a senior at MU and think that there is a huge groundswell of people that are in the boat “when we graduate….then what?” The economy is ludicrous, the jobs are as rare (as) a Cleveland Cavaliers’ victory. The only way to get into the arena of jobs you would want and have worked for is to know someone. I walk by people on campus all day with this terrified look on their face, and they are right. It is a scary time to enter the job market, and a B.S. or B.A. means less than it used to. You can have all the extracurriculars you want, but if you can’t sell yourself, then you sit on the shelf. The Student Success Center is more like an opiate for college students than anything else. They give you some broad information and limited direction and you feel like you have made steps in the right direction. Let’s face it: Columbia, Mo. is not the hub of business or finance. I think students need to stop looking to the faculty and campus to plan the rest of their lives. You need to pull all the strings you have and if one pans out, ride that one till you get a stronger one. That’s how you start to climb the ladder, no one is going to put you there, not MU, not your teachers, just you. So wipe that scared look off your face, and start hustling yourself, because if you can’t sell yourself to a company, what makes them think you could sell their product. Just a thought.