When It All Ends…

All good things (and bad ones) must come to an end. This blog has reached its termination point as well.

Well, that sounded robotic. Perhaps that’s the cybersecurity-echnical in my genes?

Let’s retry. This is going to be my final post for CCBC. Come next semester, I will be calling a 4-year university my home school. But I will still be frequently visiting CCBC for work-related reasons and technically call two campuses as my schools.

Speaking of home, what is home? Don’t we differentiate a college as a study place? Just like in my high school years, I used to long to return home. For the wrong reasons. But I still resist the urge to poke fun at those who say that student life means little more than good-grade-servitude.

College can be a home. It can be a respite from the daily life stressors, if you let it to be. If you confide in a friend. If you smile at a professor. If you work hard and do your damnest best.

And then reap the rewards of success.

CCBC has been a journey for me. It has been quite remarkable. It has been frustrating. It has been unforeseen. And it has been thrilling. From deans to workers, from students to directors, I have met mostly everyone. My roles have varied. I have been a club president, an SGA representative, an ambassador, a worker, and a volunteer. I have not been just a student. And as I continue my journey at a 4-year, I am sure I won’t be just a student. Life, as crazy and often disappointing as it can get, always awaits exciting adventures.

Coming in, I imagined I would just study and study and get good grades and a degree and move on in my student life. But CCBC has been so much more. I have so many to thank for, but you know who you are. Thank you for making me a better person.

I began this blog with a promise: that I would aim to be as transparent as possible. Why? As in most things in life, college is an investment. I hope I have lived up to that promise. Through this blog, I tried not to shy away from the “bad.” I also shared a whole lot of good. And I had students and staff tell me that they found my posts inspiring and moving. I hope I did my job as earnestly as I intended to.

Now wherever life takes us, let us embrace that journey. The bad in life is always accompanied by the good. Our journey into the deep oceans begins with a step into the unknown.

Let’s move on forward!