We Meet Again

I'm sitting where I was three years ago.

At this hotel.

As I sit here and reflect, I think about where I was three years ago and how far my life has come since then.



It was three years ago when I was here for a conference and it is three years later and I am back for the same conference. I remember my first time walking into the hotel--astonished at everything, wondering how everything has come to be in my life.

I was a senior at MSU and came to this conference because I was very fortunate to receive an award for the work I have done with first year students at my undergrad. I was in a place where I was searching for the perfect graduate school and a place where I would spend the next two years of my life. A place I now call home.

Three years later, that part of my journey is over. I graduated and have my first full-time job and it's crazy to think what three years can bring to a person's life. I sit here excited, waiting to be with my higher ed family--MSU, FIU--and I am excited to see what this conference will bring.

While it may be three years, it is important to sit and reflect have far you have come--and how much farther you still need to go.


The Giovanna sitting in this chair is not the Giovanna that was here three years ago.