By all means take your time to decide whether and if. If you take a year to decide, that's a lot shorter time than the rest of your life, and that's how long a tat lasts!

I was out with a bunch of Marines one time just outside Little Creek at Norfolk. After an evening of libation and general good cameraderie with my boon companions, we decided to get tatooed. (There are always tat parlors near military bases.) We wanted one of those with the bulldog wearing the Smokie the Bear hat.

While my friend was getting his done, I watched and began to regain a measure of sobriety which was thereunto not known, and I decided that a tat was not such a good idea afterall.

There's a point to that and a moral to the story which I leave it to you figure out.

One bit of advice: take a long time to decide and make sure you want that thing on you forever. And if you get one, don't overdo.

Congratulations on your graduation.