I’ve never actually envisioned this day. I mean, I knew I would graduate at some point, but I always thought of graduation as an infinitely distant future, an inevitable milestone, but one that I never needed to concern myself with just yet.

A year ago, I stood right over there as I watched most of my friends with whom I had started CMU, graduate. And in that moment, as they celebrated their diplomas and threw up their caps, as they showed their families their studios and labs, and said goodbye to both the places they’d come to love and those they’d learnt to resent, it hit me.

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