Quotes & Comments

Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it.
—Monica Geller to Rachel Green in Friends at the end of the pilot episode.

In the first episode of Friends, Rachel Green comes into the lives of her soon to be five best friends because she’s left her fiance at the altar and she has nowhere else to go.
She barges into Central Perk, the coffee house where the friends hang out, hoping to see Monica, her old friend from high school. Monica’s brother, Ross, has just gotten a divorce because his wife is a lesbian and as he’s telling the group that he just wants to be married again, Rachel bursts in with her wedding dress trane trailing behind her.
When Rachel soon realizes that her father isn’t going to be taking care of her any longer, and the man that she was supposed to marry is out of the picture, she starts to realize that she has to start taking care of herself.

The five friends help her take charge of her life by cutting up her credit cards and the thought of being on her own makes her hyperventilate.
I’m starting to feel like Rachel. The thought of graduating and going out into the world without a job has me reaching for the brown bag. Graduation is looming and I think it would almost be better to stay at school in my warm WMU bubble and deal with college problems, not grown up problems.
I started to look for apartments in the area where I want to end up and something was made abundantly clear to me: grown up apartments are not like college apartments. Who knew? From what I saw, it’s safe to say that college apartments are better than ones than someone right out of college with no money can afford. In comes the brown bag, again. But, it’s all part of growing up.
As soon as the hysteria is over, I know that everything will be all right, and I will be happy. And that’s what matters.
—Sara Waisanen
Editor in Chief

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Posted by HeraldAdmin on Feb 17 2009. Filed under Opinion, Quotes & Comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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