Graduation
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Hello to All This!
This is my final blog as the Nonfiction Graduate Ambassador for CCC and it’s my time to reflect on the place that’s been my home, my community, and, most importantly, the well-spring of my creativity for the last three years. It’s hard to do; my wealth of thoughts and feelings are hard to summarize despite the writerly expertise I’ve accrued in these years.
So Long, Farewell…
Cue up the graduation music, pop off the streamers, and light the fireworks…because it’s time for me to GRADUATE! Wow, has it been one hell of a ride! The last three years of my life have been full of learning about my craft and myself. I have grown in so many ways…I appreciate my life so much. I don’t even feel sad about graduating, unlike when I received my undergraduate degree and then wept all that night.
The Busiest Time of the Year
I am one week away from my thesis shoot and it is hard to believe I am almost there. I cannot believe how I already spent two years in the U.S. at Columbia College Chicago.
Hungry for Success
A piece published in Rabbit, a nonfiction poetry journal
In two weeks I will officially be starting my last year of graduate school. I..
Dear, Poetry
Dear Poetry,
It’s been a long road. We’ve only been close for five years now, but I’ve known you for what feels like my whole life, and..
Adiós Amigos
Portrait of a happy grad student installing her thesis work.
Hello for one last time, reader!
That long-awaited and suspense-buildi..
What’s Next?
In-studio view, looking forward to what’s next!
Hello again, reader, for one final time before I complete my thesis work and graduate ..
112 Days ‘Til Graduation
Greetings again after three very short weeks, reader!
There is a strange mix of adrenaline and anxiety coursing through me at the momen..
Should I stay or should I go?
An actual photo of me in Chicago missing Texas. Photo credit: Nickelodeon
As if the last two years weren’t chocked full of enough big ..
3 Unexpected Lessons from my MAM Degree
Almost to the day, 2 years after my first class in the Master of Arts Management (MAM) program, I can remember the nervousness within my s..