{"id":4795,"date":"2020-03-23T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:54:54","slug":"josee-saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2020\/03\/23\/josee-saying-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Josee: Saying Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2020\/03\/IMG_2826-e1584978793349.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2020\/03\/IMG_2826-e1584978793349-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2826\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2020\/03\/IMG_2826-e1584978793349-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2020\/03\/IMG_2826-e1584978793349-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/files\/2020\/03\/IMG_2826-e1584978793349-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A simple thank you doesn&#8217;t do this community justice. As I wrap up my time as a COM student, I can only reflect on how indescribable the past four years have been.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In COM, I found a home. I found friends. Most of all, I found my family.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this is not how I expected my senior year to end. While senior spring will take on a new alternative, I&#8217;m blessed recollecting the incredible times I&#8217;ve spent at BU.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a freshman, I made a commitment to make the most out of my college years. I did a lot of the things I had dreamt up as a first-year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But, all of that is nothing compared to the things I couldn&#8217;t expect. I made some life-long friends that I would travel the world with. I stumbled and made<\/div>\n<div>mistakes. I moved outside of my comfort zone while also learning how to say no. I learned how to set my priorities and pursue the things that mattered.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Excuse me as I get a little sappy. But thank you to my amazing peers, my inspiring faculty, my kind advisors and to the people who make this place so special.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As the saying goes &#8220;once a Terrier, always a Terrier&#8221;. I hope this community and its heart follow you to the ends of the earth. We&#8217;ll always be a part of something special.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For everyone with some time left, please take as many moments as you can to take it all in. For my fellow seniors, we did it. Go BU.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the last time, with all my love,<br \/>\nJosee<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple thank you doesn&#8217;t do this community justice. As I wrap up my time as a COM student, I can only reflect on how indescribable the past four years have been. In COM, I found a home. I found friends. Most of all, I found my family. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2020\/03\/23\/josee-saying-goodbye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Josee: Saying Goodbye<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44460],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}