It's definitely been a while and a lot has changed. I have picked my grad school and am super excited to started. As I recently graduated, I started to clean my room today and started to take down all the certificates and started gathering all the things I've been given during my time at MSU. I had to stop a few times to just think about how much I have grown and how incredibly grateful I am for all the love and support I have been given.
Sure, I might have graduated, but I definitely would not have been the person I am today if it were not for my mentors. They all support me and really do take care of me when I need it. At the same time, they push me and challenge me and--that--is what I am most grateful for.
One my mentors recently accepted a new position and it was definitely weird to see her go. It hasn't been that long and I already miss her. Going away for grad school, the thing I'm not looking forward is missing people. I have established such strong connections which so many people. It's not that they'll go away--the just change. Change is good, but it's weird too. I can no longer bop into my mentor's office everyday for our morning chats and there's a little part of me that gets sad when I remember that. Thinking about that, I start to think about everyone else: my family, my best friend, my other mentors and how all our relationships will change.
As a graduation present, my mentor, Yosayra, gave me a copy of Oh, the Places You'll Go. I sat on my bed yesterday and read it. As I read it, I couldn't help to think that this is the perfect book for her to have given me. It's real. It talked about how there's good and bad stuff that happen, but you got to push through and believe in yourself and you'll be successful--and that's the message she always gives me.
Here's a text copy I found online:http://denuccio.net/ohplaces.html
Change is coming, but change is good...and cool. ...And I'll be okay.
