Deflecting the after-graduation question

<p>I don’t see why you should tell anyone your plans if you don’t want to.</p>

<p>“I’m not sure yet” is a perfectly good answer. It’s also the truth for most college seniors at this point in the year. Except for a very few people who lined up jobs early or who have signed up for Teach for America or something like that, nobody really knows what they’re doing yet. Even the people who applied to graduate schools may change their minds and get jobs if they are displeased with the results of their graduate school applications.</p>

<p>My son graduated last May. He certainly didn’t know last Christmas that he would be living on the other side of the country by this Christmas, but that’s what he ended up doing.</p>