Making it to and through college is no small accomplishment. But what happens after the grind? Yvette, Sade, and Zohraish are all seniors at Georgia State University looking to the future, and finding it full of uncertainty and change. They set out on the road to speak with alumni who have navigated unique hurdles, and can help them embrace the winding road ahead. After meeting diverse leaders in travel writing, psychology, international business, and more, the roadtrippers realize that even if it feels like they're on shaky ground, they’ve made it this far—and there’s no limit to where they can go from here.

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Standing at a major turning point, three college students learn how to step with confidence into uncertain futures from people who've been in their shoes.

Three GSU seniors set out to meet alumni and get some perspective on post-grad paths.

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we're headed to Smyrna to do our first interview. this trip, we're finally on the road. >> Yeah. road trip the world, but driving the RV. there's traffic that's even worse. >> [LAUGH] people pleaser in my family. always fit with what I want for my life. the world, but I feel like the way I want to is not mind. >> So interview Chucheda Reval. and she founded a nonprofit called Go Eat Give, of some children's book. about the environment, that. >> What about did it pick you, or >> Georgia State really peaked my population was very, very diverse. Georgia State. from all over the world. you don't have any friends. easier transition than going anywhere else. management, everything to do with hotels. saying, gonna make more money. business and banking, and that was great. then a couple of years into it. realized that I just didn't belong there and wanna do for the rest of my life. vacations. Peru and Jamaica and take a cruise. life. colleagues started coming to know me as like the travel desk. where do you think I should go? why didn't you just start a blog? time. my own travels and that's the blog, Go Eat Give. blog, parts of the world emailing me and saying, certain charity that you work with? an opportunity to volunteer there. be some demand here for traveling and back. an organization who will help you >> For you to go from like a nine to five going to like being a travel blogger, leap. >> It was >> I would like to have a job where I but still be able to travel. saying, well, you can always do that later. first and your career first and >> I'm of the mindset, it. time back. have a focused way of travel, but things. sit in a classroom and doing that job, and living it. intern and see if that's something you like. you're just wasting time finding yourself. just ignore them. India said, so when are you going back to your real job? generation work. different right now, >> And she can go from finance to travel them like Martin Jr. is that crazy. anything. point where I am right now. see just how their lives have blossomed and that are available to me. that. 

After a conversation with travel writer Sucheta Rawal, Sade has a revelation

Episode 2: Finding Focus

studying health informatics. major at Georgia State. I'm a senior at Georgia State and be all around Georgia interviewing State. through when they were our age and are. people were at one point where I am right now. question what do you wanna do when you grow up? to veterinarian cuz I love animals. I just wanna help people. now. way, somehow. the first generation student. a shift in the generations that are to come. that you're the first one to do all of these. the equivalent of sixth grade in Mexico, take care of himself and his siblings. about how she wishes she could have gone to school, her going to school, so equivalent in Mexico. through as kids and how they've grown up and they've been through I want them to see that it to me to live a life that they didn't have. Pakistan. was four. family, and being religious. life was basically like a home life. much I would just watch football a lot. I liked other than sports. til sophomore year of college, and just going through depression. things on my own about it, interesting. I'm a psychology major now. Ending up not happy, do now is to fight against that. I am 22 years old. science. getting out of it because it was expectations of me since I'm the oldest. an example to my little sisters. I would fail and disappoint my parents. thing that I wanna do. what I do, but then I also try to think about myself. who has to live with the choices that I make. I try to push through that. chance to talk to someone that's really gone through aftermath. find out where to turn. how they overcame rough patches, I wanna be bold. gonna help force me to answer questions that I've probably don't really wanna think about. something in a while. fast. 

The roadtrippers introduce themselves, sharing stories, hopes, and why they’re here.

Episode 1: Meet the Roadtrippers

tell you who to be, and what to do. empowers people to build lives around Georgia State University to send three of trip around Georgia. about how to get the most out of college life after graduation. the Georgia State University Roadtrip. a few days, it's pretty crazy. life on the road be like. into this different world than I interviewing pretty rad people. you'll have so many weird jobs, and is because, so you what you can, or can't do. or can't be. with my personal issues. severely depressed. the low self esteem, really. I was going to therapy, and I'm a psychology major now. to do something that I love, like to hate myself, and I don't really wanna feel that way again. >> Hi. even when you were an undergrad, okay, I don't wanna do this anymore? like, I don't know what to do now? I was an undergrad, what's your major this week? >> I went through several majors. major for a while, and I loved it, and and roll my eyes at myself. something else, because, as you know, degree to work in psychology in any way, 21 year self said, my gosh, more after going to school for four years. apparel merchandising and design. I decided to pursue school psychology, but I'm like 30 years old. I, no, I'm married, something that was truly my calling. about working with kids. the School Psychology Program. I was literally like pregnant out to here. you can make it happen. I'm gonna have to go to grad school, I don't know exactly what in psychology. and then, just follow them around. Columbus and follow me around one day, a school psychologist does confidence in that intuition. looked crazy from the outside. that looked like good decisions, and this is the exact right thing to do. >> Questionable, [LAUGH]. if what you're doing is right. at a time, one step at a time, and adults have everything figured out. has it all figured out. challenges and adventures. I don't know anything. [LAUGH]. feeling to ever go away. >> The best part of interviewing CSU about their experiences, their struggles. I know I can get to where I wanna get to. 

Psychologist Emilie Parham on landing in a place she loves, and Zohraish’s first s’more!

Episode 3: Instincts & Intuition

tell you who to be and what to do. people to build lives around doing what Georgia State University to send three of trip around Georgia. about how to get the most out college and the Georgia State University Road Trip. how well received or popular they are. nine days now, there's traffic. interesting for sure, it's crazy. to these different people who are giving advice and have gotten to where they want. because I don't really know where to turn. college something I've always struggled knowing that you're the first one and question of is what I'm doing big enough? family's legacy and sacrifice. but you have to make your own way. experience is about, building up that confidence that you can else in your family has every done. exactly sure, is this gonna work out? you're in great company. >> I the general mindset that you need to have. what I'm doing after graduation. whatever and have anything to offer. to speak with Tamara Milton, the health informatics program that I still love to cook to this day. year book, everybody said, tomorrow and things like that. a chef, but I had an epiphany I guess, I thought I don't wanna sit in a kitchen my grandmother and health, they didn't know what to eat. I switched my major to nutrition. great thing about the internship process of the areas that dietitians work in. and the dietitians there work with what are called a PICC line. and you snake it up into their heart, and room to see them do that and are you squeamish about blood? I like this sort of thing! the patient's, I mean, right there blood smell, I knew I was going to. you're going to pass out. me. probably where some of you may have felt, I don't know what I wanna do. weight or are trying to lose weight for to work in weight management. experience in healthcare or to me being in this field. amount, a lot really, and I think the only insecurities in myself, is that I don't it until I have that experience working. that way when you were studying? the most challenging things for not click until you're in it and why I took that class. I don't know what I'm doing. something I already know how to do? challenges you, that's how you advance. that space of wanting to learn things and to be in a comfortable space, to do things that you know how to do. situations where I was uncomfortable, get used to feeling uncomfortable because be in situations like that and to be comfortable being uncomfortable. someone who is similar to me, it past all this and that I can get there one day, that went to Georgia State and is something that's really inspiring. people who went to the same school as you. more of a connection, done some really cool stuff. to me has definitely helped me see but I do see that I am the life for myself that I do want. yet, so I just gotta go out and get it. 

In Atlanta, Yvette connects with the woman who began GSU’s health informatics program.

Episode 4: We're All Searching

tell you who to be and what to do. empowers people to build lives around Georgia State University to send three of trip around Georgia. about how to get the most out of college life after graduation. the Georgia State University Roadtrip. back to Square One in Atlanta. just started a couple days ago but she's a business woman and she started out as a Hooters waitress. a president of a company that owns service started in our lead positions. as people make it out to be. a waitress, pay my way through college. company started growing, and people in very difficult situations. I was vice president at the age of 26. had no experience in traveling or traveling and opening restaurants. just taking jobs wherever, you wanted to be in the future? as an executive at 26? I had definitely a different and a nontraditional journey. alcoholic parent. of my family to ever get into college. jobs on either side of my family. roles, they were mostly old dudes. of people that wore suits. it had their name on it, right here. in a plant, they were truck drivers, or it was kind of what was on television, realized I wanted more business. got my MBA at Georgia State. in a room where I was younger, a polished background and so differences become so literally feeds you. that holds you back. some reason, that somebody put me here. those other things helped quiet that, and bucket to take risks. and so it just gets easier and easier. at entry-level and kinda just like, I really go to the big things that I need to do those things you don't really just keep still striving for more. >> What a woman, my goodness. talking to people who went to the same concerns, and questions as you. consider, why you take these next steps. something that they really like they thought it would be. something in psychology. I'm still not sure and that's fine. figure everything out in ten days. and I've embraced that on this trip. learned is this, like shadow people, ask some questions and stuff. light bulb in my head. pieces as you enter that big goal. scared about like what my future is gonna that I'm not in the right place, and want my family to be really proud of me. leaders we talked to did fail a lot but and it doesn't mean you're a failure. what I can do, and talking to these different people has stop focusing on everyone around you. what you like and what you want out of opportunities to get on the road to that. you're not always gonna please people. change your mind, and that's just life. will get, and the happier you'll be. 

Kat Cole shares her journey from waitress to COO, and the team shares final reflections.

Episode 5: Roots Vs. Anchors

Getting a degree is a huge undertaking—figuring out what to do with it is another one altogether. That’s why, together with Georgia State University, we’re sending a group of GSU students on a road trip across the state to interview fellow GSU alumni who’ve figured out how to translate their education into fulfilling work. Follow the journey to hear their stories and see the many ways you can turn a degree into a thriving career.

There’s a lot of talk about how to get into college—but what does it take to get through and figure out what you want to do? We’re sending GSU students on a journey to find out.


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