Commencement Exercises
As the graduation month
of March draws to a close, senior muntazirin are burning the midnight candle
in preparing for the final exams, in writing their theses, and in meeting
the deadlines for other academic requirements. Back home, parents are
ardently praying for the graduation of their daughter or son, are most
willing to extend every sort of assistance---LBC package, banknotes,
morale-boost, supplication, or their aggregate.
After successfully passing all the subjects, the candidates are busy, this
time, in working for their toga and university clearance while parents are
informed of the date of graduation rites. "At last, it's my graduation," one
would utter after an emphatic sigh.
While having no qualms in conceding that graduation is worth celebrating
for, graduating muntazirin are supposed to be reminded that it's a mere
beginning of a protracted career journey. As you go out of the portal of
your alma mater, the challenge of job-hunting is awaiting you. Failure to
prove one's self equal to the challenge is tantamount to inevitable
inclusion in the burgeoning list of professional muntazirin who are yet to
find a niche in the seriously nepotism-infested career service.
As such, graduating muntazirin are expected to make themselves more equipped
before wearing their toga. Nonetheless, it is to be noted that Muntazirin
who are still in the initial years of their studies are fortunate to have
more preparation time for the ensuing battle for employment.
As the saying goes, "Forewarned is forearmed".
Posted: January 2001
graduation day
is just a beginning.
© 1998-2004 Shajaratun Muntazirah
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