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Colleen at Collegewise

When I Was 17: Graduation

5/9/2019

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PicturePhoto by Baim Hanif on Unsplash
​I’m sharing this post from Washington, D.C. where I am in town to celebrate my sister’s graduation from college. There’s an incredible poetry in seeing her come to the end of an experience that so many of my students are at the very beginning of. Looking back, I can remember how incredibly excited we were when she got admitted to American University. And I remember how seriously she took the decision of where to go to college, how each choice would set her up for what she was hoping to do next. And when she said yes to American, we celebrated her accomplishment and also the potential future she was committing to.
 
After seeing her go through the last four years, I’m more mindful than ever that getting into college isn’t really the accomplishment. Graduating from college matters more than getting in to college. And building a meaningful career matters more than graduating from college. And living a fulfilling life matters even more than your career.
 
In the end, college is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. All those details that seemed so important as a senior in high school – where you got in to college, where you decided to go – become less and less important with each passing year. And what becomes more important is what you do with your time and who you spend it with. So this weekend, I’m celebrating my sister’s accomplishment. But I know another four years from now, I’ll be just as proud of all the things she’s done since. 

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Cece
5/11/2019 08:49:16 am

Big congrats to Summer! Share lots of pictures with us!

Give her my best as she ends one chapter and enters the next chapter of the book she will make of her life.
Cece

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    When I Was 17 is a blog series dedicated to collecting the varied stories of people's career paths, what they envisioned themselves doing when they were teenagers and how that evolved over the course of their lives. I started this project with the goal of illustrating that it's okay not to know exactly what you want to do when you're 17; many successful people didn't, and these are a few of their stories.  

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