{"id":3860,"date":"2025-05-16T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T23:38:05","slug":"goodbyeand-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/2025\/05\/goodbyeand-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye\u2026and Hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With theses completed and celebrations held at Renn Fayre, the seniors (myself included) prepare for their final day as Reed students and the event that will transform them into Reed alumni: Commencement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I feel torn between a myriad of emotions. I\u2019m relieved to be getting my degree and excited to move on to new exciting things, but I\u2019m also nostalgic for the time I\u2019ve spent at Reed and sad to be leaving the community I\u2019ve become so ingrained in over the last four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been reminiscing on my underclassman years, and looking through photos from my entire time at Reed. How much I\u2019ve changed and grown, and how Reed has shaped who I\u2019ve become. I wonder how life will be outside of the Reed bubble and how my connections to this community will change as my class disperses into the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working in the alumni office has definitely framed my outlook on the post Reed community positively though. The resources and connections<\/a> available to us do not just vanish upon graduation (clearly, as I\u2019m writing this blog for alumni<\/em>). Knowing that the Reed community will still be there for me brings me comfort in spite of the uncertainty that the world outside Reed promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See you on the other side,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon to be Reed Alumna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taliah Churchill \u201925<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With theses completed and celebrations held at Renn Fayre, the seniors (myself included) prepare for their final day as Reed students and the event that will transform them into Reed alumni: Commencement. Personally, I feel torn between a myriad of emotions. I\u2019m relieved to be getting my degree and excited to move on to new … Continue reading Goodbye\u2026and Hello!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,186,190,1],"tags":[179,205,218],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-traditions","category-studentlife","category-uncategorized","tag-commencement","tag-community","tag-graduation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/riffin_griffin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}