The class of 2020 is struggling to find jobs, especially in creative fields, due to the pandemic. “I feel hopeful,” said one NYU grad. “But I keep asking myself, ‘what am I supposed to do next?’”
There’s only one problem with the college class of 2020: They graduated in 2020, the Year the Whole World Slammed to a Stop.“When corona first peeked its head up, NYU was on spring break,” Jacarrea Garraway remembers like it was 15 minutes ago. “We were immediately evicted from our dorms. We went to class remotely, but it really wasn’t that much fun. All the talking to people that I’d been doing, all the exploring what comes next — that part of my senior year was cut super-short.
“Everything felt fine until it wasn’t,” agreed Jasmine Thomas, who graduated in May as a fashion design major at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. Commencement exercises, which had been planned for Radio City Music Hall, were replaced by a Celebration of the Class of 2020, conducted entirely online. Then it was career time.
Like Garraway, Thomas has been talking to people, chasing leads, trying to schedule interviews and accepting whatever encouragement comes along. Like almost all 2020 graduates, she figures she’ll be looking for a while.
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