Blog # 1 Life as a Townie

In the article Enjoy life as a townie after graduation, I find the commentary about life as a working adult in the "real world" to be false and over glamorized. The writer Phillip Kisubika explains how he once looked at "townies"--people who reside in Athens who are not students. He claims he once thought townies were weird. Although he once demised the life of a townie, he is now proud to call himself a one. For he believes that the benefits of being a townie, which include free drinks downtown to be far more self-fulfilling, then actually moving on from Athens. 

Since Phillips worries no longer include updating his facebook status about "the last first day school", but rather missing article deadlines, he has much more incentive and need to "drink away a hard days work". And what better place to do that than downtown Athens? I feel that this article misrepresents the lifestyle of someone who just graduated. With the economy at it's current state not to mention the unemployment rate, recent graduates are strenuously looking for employment opportunities and are often coming up short. I do not believe that when I graduate in two semesters that I will be concerned with analyzing at current students facebook status' or getting a free beer downtown. In fact I predict it to be quite the opposite. 

His depiction of the "transition period" between college and the "real world" is unrealistic. Moreover,  if Phillip has a full time job, when does his "real world" actually begin? It seems more like Phillip has a hard time moving past the glory days of skipping class, football games and happy hours.