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marathoner452) wrote2006-05-15 09:24 pm
marathoner452) wrote2006-05-15 09:24 pm
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remembering and reflecting
One year ago yesterday I graduated from St. Mary's College with a degree in history and a concentration in Africa and the African Diaspora. It was a perfect day, clear and sunny and warm. I wandered around afterwards in my cap and gown and bare feet and hung out with my professors, esp. Professor Holden who was my SMP advisor. My family and I packed up my dorm room for the last time and we went out to IHOP for lunch, which was significant because that's where we went out to lunch when I first went off to school. I couldn't even decide what I wanted to eat because my brain was just so overwhelmed by moving away from home for the first time.
I went back down to St. Mary's for graduation last weekend with Christine. That was only the third time I've been down to St. Mary's since I graduated, the other two times being the Special Olympics regatta last summer and Coleen and Tom's wedding last fall. On the way down Christine and I talked about all that we've done in the past year. For her that has been pro-life organizing and volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center. For me that can be summed up in one word, Katrina. I haven't had a chance to miss college life. Sure I miss being able to run during the middle of the day, or sleep in until noon, or hang out with friends over a 2 hour dinner in the Great Room. Sure I miss living down by the water and discussing the minutiae of American slave systems with my professors. Sure I miss nearly unlimited free time and the laid-back lifestyle of a college student, but I love what I'm doing now. Somehow I was lucky enough to fall into the perfect job within months of graduation, one where I'm constantly challenged and inspired and able to make use of what I learned as a history major even if the only history I've needed to know is the history of major hurricanes.
I wouldn't have given up this past year for anything. I can't wait to see what the next year will bring.
On that note, hurricane season 2006 is only 17 days away, and I heard at tonight's Emergency Services meeting that they've already found the first tropical depression in the Atlantic. Apparently the hurricanes don't realize that hurricane season isn't supposed to start yet.
~Bethany
I went back down to St. Mary's for graduation last weekend with Christine. That was only the third time I've been down to St. Mary's since I graduated, the other two times being the Special Olympics regatta last summer and Coleen and Tom's wedding last fall. On the way down Christine and I talked about all that we've done in the past year. For her that has been pro-life organizing and volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center. For me that can be summed up in one word, Katrina. I haven't had a chance to miss college life. Sure I miss being able to run during the middle of the day, or sleep in until noon, or hang out with friends over a 2 hour dinner in the Great Room. Sure I miss living down by the water and discussing the minutiae of American slave systems with my professors. Sure I miss nearly unlimited free time and the laid-back lifestyle of a college student, but I love what I'm doing now. Somehow I was lucky enough to fall into the perfect job within months of graduation, one where I'm constantly challenged and inspired and able to make use of what I learned as a history major even if the only history I've needed to know is the history of major hurricanes.
I wouldn't have given up this past year for anything. I can't wait to see what the next year will bring.
On that note, hurricane season 2006 is only 17 days away, and I heard at tonight's Emergency Services meeting that they've already found the first tropical depression in the Atlantic. Apparently the hurricanes don't realize that hurricane season isn't supposed to start yet.
~Bethany
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I can't wait to see what the next year will bring either, for you, for me, and for us. It's exciting to know that I may be doing something just as challenging and inspiring as you are very soon.
~Adam
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It's true, it's hard to miss it. You've had Katrina, and I've had grad school and the book.
Congratulations to both of us for moving on and realizing that college isn't the best time of our lives, but just the beginning.