After You Graduate...
After you finish the Core, pick your major electives and spend hours studying for your comprehensive exams; after enduring 300 level courses and sub-100 level gen-eds; long after you meet your roommates and sample for the first time the fine Kutztown cuisine, the final chapter in your passage through the undergraduate gauntlet will be written: Graduation.
That sinking feeling is the realization that a once-in-a-lifetime experience has come to an end. The pressure you feel is the weight of the so-called “real world” landing all at once on your weary haunches. Dizziness sets in as the radical number of important decisions facing you is made clear. The word “overwhelmed” comes to mind as proud family and friends snap photos and shed tears of joy—tears you wish you had the composure to keep from falling from your own eyes.
Or not; graduation could be just another drawn out event preceding the party of your life. Whatever state of mind you find yourself in after the caps are tossed, know this: you are prepared.
Your successful participation in the Professional Writing program has granted you the skills and knowledge for your graduation day and the days that lie ahead. Chances are, the negative side-effects of commencement (as described above) will be, at the least, partially subdued thanks in part to your experience as a Pro Writing major or minor.
Hopefully you’ll be entering a prosperous job market. Whether that is or is not the case, fear not: a world of options exists. Professional Writing majors have attained varying positions in many different industries, from journalism to television to surgical parts engineering.
The value of a Pro Writing degree truly shines at this point, because virtually every business at every level in every industry needs employees with strong communication skills and a mastery of the English language, two of the primary academic strengths a PW degree instills. Furthermore, with the formal experience attained from your internship(s) and the more casual experience gained from Pro Sem, you are armed and ready to take (nonviolent) siege of the profession you desire.
This section contains valuable resources for a prospective or recent graduate to take advantage of on the links page. From job search sites to interview tips, even advice for changing careers, the links page has it.
On the alumni page, you can view profiles of Professional Writing alum and get a sense of what it’s like being a PW graduate.
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Important Dates
Tues. Sept. 16
PW Orientation
SUB Multipurpose Room
Fri. Sept. 19
Information Session - Senior Comprehensives
Lytle 214
Thurs. Sept. 25
Internship Meeting I
Academic Forum 102
Tues. Oct. 21
Block Advising
Academic Forum 102
Fri. Oct. 24
Senior Comprehensive Exams
Old Main 130
Thurs. Nov. 6
Internship Meeting II
Academic Forum 102
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