Street Snippets

“You have a college degree? What are you doing here?” The coworker looked at the other, sitting in a cubicle side to side, and trying to answer the best they could. “I mean, do YOU have a college degree?” “I… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” Many people who have a college degree and who work in the cafe often hear the question. “You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?”. But people who… Continue Reading →

You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here? Learning, Studying, working- All of this to get me here. I did what I was supposed to do. But I still feel so incomplete. Yes, I have that college degree,… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” My coworker Mitch asked me. We had worked together from the beginning, as we started orientation on the same day, and often worked the same hours. He was a very… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” my coworker John says. I tell him, ” Yeah man I got my degree in Infectious disease and health. But finding jobs working with deadly diseases is hard especially when… Continue Reading →

JOHN: You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here? MILES: Well, first thing’s first buddy, having a music major is just embarrassing. (PLAY LAUGH TRACK) As for me being here, I might as well use the embarrassment to… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” The question hung in the air for what felt like minutes but was only a second. “Sometimes, life doesn’t go as planned,” Alex replied, swirling the amber liquid in his… Continue Reading →

You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here? Were you met with misfortune? What direction did you steer? Did you try your very best? Or did you give up and die? Was it luck? Or addiction? Were you… Continue Reading →

I’m a normal little boy, like everyone else. I woke up, brushed my teeth, and went to school like other children my age did. I sit in the place I hated, heads down, doing things I’ve never liked before, just… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree. What are you doing here?” I heard that oh-so-familiar voice, coming from a stranger I knew too well. He stood leaning against the doorframe of the shop with that air of superiority he always had,… Continue Reading →

Overgrown “You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” the driver asks as we watch another coffin get lowered into the dirt. I cannot find an answer that would make sense, so I settle with, “It pays the… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” The expectations are high when you soar above the clouds And watch all the forlorn souls after graduating from college. Recently graduated with an art history or liberal arts degree,… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college Degree? What are you doing here?” I looked up from the papers and paper stacked before me. Before my desk stood a person. No, rather a distortion. It was a person I definitely knew well by… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” Thomas asked his friend, Giusto. Remaining silent for a long time, Giusto responded: “I don’t know, my friend. Perhaps I was trying to save more people?” Thomas meditated for a… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” That question keeps repeating over and over, My words bubble up, stuck in my throat, As I swallow the urge to fight back their overwhelming judgement, Almost like a ticking… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree. What are you doing here?” Her brow furrowed in a look of genuine confusion clouded with judgement. I knew she never would have expected to find me here, moved back into my childhood bedroom, working… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” He pointed past the scruffy old man’s head; to the decrepit old wall, adorned with mostly empty frames. However, one held an item: a college certificate. “Isn’t that a doctorate?… Continue Reading →

What are you doing here? You’ve got a college degree, what are you doing here? That question echoes in my head like a song I can’t forget. 4 years of school, then to be dropped off in the “real” world… Continue Reading →

“You’ve got a college degree? What are you doing here?” The question surrounded him in whispers and hushed tones. An unspoken judgment, with no room left for approval. A heavy doubt lingers in his mind—why are you here? In his… Continue Reading →