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As you explore your options for life after Gustavus, the Center for Vocational Reflection at Gustavus can help you find meaning, passion, and purpose in your life—and for the world.

• What am I supposed to do with my life?
• Where am I headed?
• Who am I, and why am I here?
• What's my place in the world, how can I make a difference?
• What do I really care about, and what am I really good at?
• Does anyone else wrestle with questions like these?!

Being in college doesn't make questions like this go away. In fact, they often become more pressing and complex than ever before. And then, once you graduate and head out into the "real world," well, you discover than you've been in the real world all along because questions like these are always with us. They're just some of the Big Questions that we all face as we try to figure out our callings in life.

The Center for Vocational Reflection provides opportunities and resources for the entire Gustavus community to explore questions like these. We build on the best of the heritage and commitment of Gustavus to:

• support you in sorting out all the voices that compete for your time, energy, and future;
• equip you to recognize your gifts and follow your passions in life;
• champion the value of a balance between work and rest, action and reflection;
• cheer you on as you search for the best possible fit between who you really are and how you can make a difference in the world; and,
• help you develop the skills and take the risks that come with living out your calling to a meaningful life of leadership and service.

No matter what your starting point or current place on your journey, we invite you to join us on this continuing human adventure to find "the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."

Learn how the Center for Vocational Reflection can help you by contacting the Admission Office at admission@gustavus.edu or by exploring the Center's website.