Senior Spotlight: Four Year Flashback
Clare Langan
Issue date: 5/7/09 Section: Features
Senior year, last call. Countdown clocks. Your roommate dressed like Sarah Palin for Halloween. You voted absentee. He won. You became a Pleasant Ridge regular. You devoted your life to capping. You took a break "on a boat." You went around the world in Upper West. You fested by the river. You fested on the green. You spent a lot of your time festing. You realized living each day to the fullest is the only way to live. Some problems got smaller, others got bigger. You never passed up a chance to "just hang out". You challenged yourself in class. You reconnected with your past. You attended your last class. Ever. You wonder how your education has finished. You feel like you have only just begun.
Some say it ends on May 23, but I say it's only the beginning. That's the meaning of "commencement", after all. As freshmen, we viewed seniors as all-knowing adults, twenty-two year olds ready to conquer the world. While we don't know it all, we do know one thing. The last four years have prepared us. Whether we conquer the world or just tackle our summer job back home, we are ready.
Some say it ends on May 23, but I say it's only the beginning. That's the meaning of "commencement", after all. As freshmen, we viewed seniors as all-knowing adults, twenty-two year olds ready to conquer the world. While we don't know it all, we do know one thing. The last four years have prepared us. Whether we conquer the world or just tackle our summer job back home, we are ready.
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