Graduation

Posted on July 8, 2009
Filed Under summer | By Peter Bonamici

GraduationOn Sunday my family hosted a party for two family friends who had graduated—one from Cornell and one from Indiana—in May. I saw less of them when they moved to Ithaca and Bloomington. And that distance, combined with my own college experience, made me lose track of how much time had passed since they had graduated from high school and, in turn, how much time had passed since my own graduation. One might say that, on Sunday, I had a mid-college crisis. Two oh-so-short years from now it will be my turn to don my cap and gown and receive my diploma, which means that I will need to have somewhere to go once Carleton kicks me out at five p.m. that day. 

I can only begin to suggest what I am going to do after college. Part of me wants to stay in the classroom forever, to go to graduate school, get a Ph.d. and become a professor. Another part wants to go to law school and begin a career based on a different sort of reading and writing. And part of me wants a break from words altogether, to consider different modes of expression in architecture school. Mr. West wonders if I know what it means to find my dreams. Sometimes we all feel that way but, deep down, I have confidence that we’ll know when something is right.

-Peter

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