Well, now I'm officially a graduate of Clarion University. It hasn't sunk in yet, but I'm certainly working on it. For all their ups and downs, all the success and failure, all the triumph and the heartbreak, the joy and the sadness, to say nothing of the immense quantities of coffee and stacks of books, my five years working on my undergraduate degrees have revolutionized my life. To shamelessly quote Dickens, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," and while there were times that I was absolutely in despair, I kept going and pulled through. And it has been the most worthwhile experience of my life. I feel like my mind has been opened to all the possibilities of the world, an openness that definitely was not present during high school. That is, I suppose, the point of college, in a higher sense. Beyond the job qualification it provides, beyond the parties and the people you meet, beyond that is the realization that there is an entire world out ther...
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