graduation – Cat Zhang

The graduation post

After saying a final goodbye to my friends on Saturday evening, I was sitting in bed in my hotel room, capturing those firefly thoughts that tend to come to me in moments of transition.

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It feels like just days ago I was a timid little kid, fresh, green, young, inexperienced,taking my first steps through these unfamiliar halls,cowering in the shadows of the seasoned veterans.These gates seemed so high and imposing,walls like a prison, thick, sturdy, inescapable.The faces I saw and voices I heard as I trudged alonggrew dull andContinue reading “Guest Post: Departure”

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Seven Final Thoughts about Senior Year (Graduation Edition)

One final blog post about senior year and graduating, I promise. 1) I think I have finally figured out why the college process can induce so much stress. The essence of college admissions is comparison, the root of all unhappiness. Without comparing students to one another, colleges wouldn’t be able to coherently choose candidates for admission,Continue reading “Seven Final Thoughts about Senior Year (Graduation Edition)”

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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in, and a pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves

2013 was the year of the snake, aka the year of the struggle. It was all of the pent up stress of dealing with college, depicted in sighs, tears, and teeth-gnashing. As the clock strikes 12 on New Years’, seniors all over the country will one-by-one fall back exhausted into their beds, saying to themselvesContinue reading “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in, and a pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves”

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Revelations about senior year (the beginning of the end?)

Senior year. What do people cleverly name their senior year photo albums on Facebook? The beginning of the end? Yeah, something like that. I’m only a few months into the beginning of the end and already, it’s starting to overwhelm me. I think we get so caught up in everything – the prospect of college,Continue reading “Revelations about senior year (the beginning of the end?)”