{"id":4819,"date":"2020-03-31T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2020-03-31T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:12:16","slug":"zach-m-a-message-to-the-bu-class-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2020\/03\/31\/zach-m-a-message-to-the-bu-class-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach M: A Message to the BU Class of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Dear Seniors,<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard this a thousand times before, but everything\u2019s going to be okay.<\/span><\/p>\n

We had the last couple of months of our final semester of college stripped away from us by something completely out of our control. We have worked so incredibly hard in our classes, extracurriculars and even in our personal lives to see the effort and passion we put into our work realized. That got taken away from us way before it should have. We didn\u2019t quit. We didn\u2019t fail. We didn\u2019t even step on the seal. Okay, some of us may have done that one. But that\u2019s not why we\u2019re here now. An event, a crisis, a pandemic completely out of our control is why we are where we are now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of you may be thinking, as I thought very early on as well: what about graduation? What about senior week? What about spending the last months of college with some of the best people you\u2019ve gotten to spend four years with in your lifetime? Those questions are valid. And sadly, they may go unanswered. And that truly sucks, and I\u2019m sorry for you and myself. But we have to realize how incredibly important our health is, how valuable it is to spend this time taking care of ourselves and our family members. We can look on the bright side. <\/span><\/p>\n

There really is an upside to all of this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We have been given somewhat of a grace period, an undefined number of months that is, in some way, marred with uncertainty, dissonance, and despondence, but, on the other hand, an opportunity for those seeking guidance into the real world. It\u2019s an opportunity to spend time with your family that you likely won\u2019t get to have when you\u2019re in the working world. And some of you may not feel ready to start your careers. I don\u2019t feel ready yet either. And this pandemic, this call for social distancing, has given me the chance to breathe and find clarity before I do take the next step in my life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But on the other hand, especially for us COM kids, we have reason to believe that certain jobs we were expecting to get won\u2019t be there after all of this is said and done. And those of you with jobs lined up may be in fear of losing your first job, a job you haven\u2019t even started yet. That\u2019s just one more thing that\u2019s out of our control. That\u2019s one more thing to think about during this extremely stressful time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As COM Ambassadors, we have the responsibility of giving those whose shoes we were once in advice about how to navigate college life. The tables have turned. We need to help our peers, our fellow seniors, navigate whatever this period of our lives is. Tell your fellow senior to think about right now. Thinking about what could have been isn\u2019t helping us right now. Tell your fellow senior to think optimistically about the future. We are going to come out on the other side of this stronger. Be patient. Stay healthy. And I know you\u2019ve heard this a thousand times before, but it\u2019s going to be okay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Seniors, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard this a thousand times before, but everything\u2019s going to be okay. We had the last couple of months of our final semester of college stripped away from us by something completely out of our control. We have worked so incredibly hard in our classes, extracurriculars and even in our … Continue reading Zach M: A Message to the BU Class of 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44474],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819"}],"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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}