The worst part of graduating, or leaving, college is:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

[Sanity Claws]

1. Lack of direction

I always wanted to finish school and was very driven to get my degree. However, once that was accomplished, I found it very hard to find something specific into which to channel my energy.

[Nikia]

4. Everything was so clear in college

You chose a major. You took classes to fullfill your major, gen eds, and other classes that interested you. Once you were in those classes, the objectives of those classes tended to be clearly defined by a sylabus. The sylabus usually told you how you would be graded and usually listed the clearly defined assignments. You knew how to do well in college because they made that clear.
It isn't always clear how to get a good job. There are lots of general career, interview, and resume books but any given employer may or may not hire you for a variety of reasons, which they almost never tell you and certainly not early in the employment process. Once you get a job, you might have the misfortune to work for someone who says that he believes in flexibility, which really means that he makes up the rules as he goes. He keeps these rules in his mind and does not share them with you until you are being denied a raise or told that he is disappointed with your progress and then he is only vague about those rules. Even if your boss is clearer then that, he/she is usually not as clear as the professors were in college.

[fortyfeetunder]

2. I was GLAD to graduate

I was living at home and I really wanted to be somewhere else the entire time than where I was. (I hated the college I graduated from)

Made sure my job offer was the farthest away from home...and left right after graduation....

[mr_hat]

3. I can't remember. I do recall >

that all I wanted to be was a cowboy.

I got a job pushing tools on an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. Quite the eye-opener for a humanities major/fine arts minor.

[Nikia]

5. I miss being around like minded people the same age

I went to college with a bunch of intellectuals who tended to be more liberal than the population at large. For the most part, they were tolerant of all people regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. They tended to be open minded. I had many friends and I always could find some whenever I needed them.
Now I live in an area where people tend towards xenophobia. They tend to be suspicious of anyone who is not white, straight, Luthern or Catholic, lived in rural Wisconsin their whole life, and of Northern European descent. They tend towards Conservatism, although there are exceptions which came out of the woodwork during this past election. They tend to be more gender traditional than I am comfortable with. Most people my age (mid twenties) seem to only be interested in getting drunk and laid (more so than even college) or have small children and are completely focused on them. It is hard to make a lot of friends and have them there for you. Most of these people already have those friends, who they met in elementary school.