The Food We Eat and The Cat Who Eats With Us: Smile Because it Happened

I am now a college graduate! It is just starting to sink in, now that I am home and have practically finished unpacking. Despite the heat and being directly under the noon sun, I really enjoyed the graduation ceremony. The speakers were interesting, entertaining, and encouraging, and it was honestly pretty exciting to walk across the stage and receive my diploma! I'm sure most of the people reading this have already seen plenty of photos from graduation on other forms of social media (or were there in person). But I love my parents and this picture too much not to share. I definitely could not have completed my four years at Whitman without the help of my parents!

Thanks for taking this photo, Lori!

I think Anne has a point when she says, "I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure" (Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery). I am sure there will be many more pleasant things in my future, but it sure is hard to see my years at Whitman end. I have been lucky to have such wonderful friends, though. I met Rachel my first day at Whitman on our Food and Hunger S.C.O.R.E (Summer Community OutReach Excursion). I think we both looked at the other and decided we were going to be friends. Every once in a while I think about how different my experience would have been if I hadn't gone on that S.C.O.R.E... I am so glad I did! And if I hadn't been friends with Rachel, I never would have met her lovely section-mates, Marisa, Elizabeth, and Fabiola. And although Elizabeth transferred after sophomore year, she was still a huge part of my Whitman experience! Thank you all!