Brexits 1.0 and 2.0
First, a quick note on “Brexits”: unreal, right?  Losing to Iceland to get knocked out of Euro 2016 in the Round of 16?  Don’t think the bookies called that one...or the earlier one either, actually.  You know, the one 3 days earlier where England voted to leave the European Union?  If you looked at the headlines Friday morning and thought the world was going to end, we don’t blame you...but we’d like to point out that it has been a rather non-world-ending week since then.  
Be prepared for more headlines to come as this plays out over the next two years.  Yes, years.  The now-oxymoronic UK needs a new Prime Minister in a couple months, someone who theoretically will actually trigger the clause (Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, for those keeping track) to start negotiations for exiting the EU (which, by law, can take up to two years, with the possibility of an extension).  And the front-runner, one of the two people who basically engineered the "leave" vote, just dropped out of the race.

Meanwhile, you have seven or eight other countries that will try to get their own national referendum held about EU membership, not to mention Scotland and Northern Ireland trying to break away from the UK so that they can stay in the EU.  Phew.  That’s a lot of ink yet to be written.
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As for how this will affect you personally...two things.