If you’re reading this, the world didn’t end on Tuesday.

Maybe it feels like it did. You might be lamenting what you feel was unfair media coverage that has led to your candidate’s loss, while others are celebrating their candidate’s victory. Even if the election had gone your way, it would feel like the world ended for everyone else.

Maybe you’re grateful the country has shown its sanity by electing the candidate you believe to be the best person for the job.

The election might have been called quickly. Coverage and speculation may have gone late into the night like it did four years ago. There’s a small chance that there is still uncertainty, like there was in the election 16 years ago when it took weeks for Florida recounts to determine the next president.

Regardless of the results, many of us can breathe a sigh of relief knowing there are no more debates and no more campaign commercials. Perhaps the political science majors are sad that the election is over, but I imagine the mid-semester disillusionment with class content that many of us experience extends to them as well.

But if you’re reading this, the world hasn’t ended.

So there’s a lot of work to do.

Both major party candidates have had their scandals and accusations of misconduct, and now one of them is president. Donald Trump tweeted that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese. Hillary Clinton, despite her apologies, still called millions of Americans “deplorables.” Both have policies that millions of Americans disagree with.

They both also want what they believe is best for America. But for better or worse, their desires won’t manifest overnight just because they’re president, and they won’t manifest when our new president is inaugurated in January.

This election hasn’t solved the problem of widespread hunger in the United States, which affects more than 26,000 Alamance County residents who are food insecure, according to Feeding America.

This election hasn’t automatically granted aid — private, public or otherwise — to the 17.6 percent of Alamance County residents who were without health insurance in 2011, according to the Alamance County Community Assessment.

The results of this election don’t automatically fix the problems American citizens and residents face, even if the candidate you believe can help fix them is now the president -elect.

It’s not easy to hear there’s more work to be done.

For many of us, voting was a relatively easy and quick action. Some of us may have voted so that other people can fix society for us. We’re busy enough with class and work and clubs and the thousands of other facets of our lives. Why do we need to find time more time to fix the problems of our society, too?

The easy answer is that you don’t. The fate of the world doesn’t rest on your shoulders. You can’t fix the divisions in our country and in our world by yourself.

The hard answer is that you still didn’t fix the country’s problems with your vote. There’s still a lot of work to do.

Luckily, it doesn’t always mean you have to try and find more time in your schedule.

You can make the most of the work you already do. Use the research you’re doing just because it’s on the syllabus as an opportunity to analyze the implications on local issues. Share it when it’s complete so the work you’re already spending time on can contribute to fixing local problems instead of collecting digital dust in your hard drive. Take a theoretical paper and consider its applications to the problems you think should take priority, whether that’s the refugee crisis, climate change or a lack of strong leadership.

The skills we learn in the classroom can take us a lot further than our campus.

At this year’s Democratic National Convention and again at the recent rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, President Barack Obama told the nation to vote instead of just booing when we disagree with something or someone. With all due respect, voting is not enough.

If all we do is vote, or if we think there isn’t a point and we don’t vote at all, we leave our share of the work to be done to somebody else.

Maybe all you can do is what you’re already doing, and you don’t need to put more pressure on yourself.

But odds are you can be doing a little more to improve our community and our country. It doesn’t need to be an enormous time commitment, and it doesn’t need to be on a global scale.

The world didn’t end when you left your polling place or dropped your ballot in the mail. It certainly didn’t end when the election results were called, so we can’t pretend our ballot is the only meaningful thing we can contribute to society.

Don’t just boo and don’t just vote. Act.