A group of young women belt out Beyonce’s “Halo” on the bus ride home from Columbia.
All those times our campus “believe[d] that we will win.”
In short, the entire college experience is reason to marvel—especially those moments we earn in the wake of time spent giving ourselves over to the good of a collective cause.
And while our time at Harvard is finite, opportunities to pursue knowledge abound. Even as we leave this place to do whatever we’ve chosen, we are blessed with innumerable possibilities. There’s really no telling where any of us will be in 20 years, which of the countless books we’ll decide to read. And that is something worth celebrating.
Since we’ve reached the end of my allotted word count—and our time at Harvard—I’ll leave you with a piece of one of my favorite childhood stories. It seems to fit here, given that, for me, it served as a sort of beginning.
“Take a farewell look at the waves and the sky,” writes Robert McCloskey. “Take a farewell sniff of the salty sea. A little bit sad about the place you are leaving, a little bit glad about the place you are going.”
As college students and as graduating seniors, we have reached that “Time of Wonder.”
—Staff writer Catherine E. Coppinger can be reached at catherine.coppinger@gmail.com. Follow her on Twitter @CatCopp.