This week we started early with a special session of our own to discuss the impending capstone and portfolio. Dr. Ford gave us some great introductory information about what to look for in a capstone project, and the heads up to keep every project we've worked on to ensure we have content for these final portfolios that will demonstrate mastery and proficiency in each of the subjects we've taken.
We then moved to our normal classroom and proceeded with two hours of ethics and two hours of finance. Hard to believe our first test in finance is already coming in two weeks!
This weekend, like many around the US, I traveled far distances to attend my brother and sister-in-law's graduations from college. Like so many years we sat there, but this time that repetitive graduation song held a different tune. This time, that "strange small group of masters students who make up the first two-three rows of the graduates" didn't seem so strange. I knew the path of their journey, and in as little time as someone saying their first, middle and last name and a hand shake, they reached their final goal. Their prize had been won. All those group projects, late nights, and chapter and chapters of reading were completed, and they were done.
Seeing all the robes and caps made me envision how in 15 months, these familiar faces of my cohort- my friends that I see weekly, will all be garbed in these similar gowns, and as quickly as it is to say all 20 of our names, this journey will be over. We'll have the prize and accomplishment of knowing we did it! And as quickly as this all will end, it will just as quickly begun. After completing our capstone, and inspiring some positive change in our corner of the world we might just have the taste for what victories lie before us, and this might just lead to the question that got many of us here in the first place... How can I grow? How can I make a bigger impact in the world around me? What's next? And so it ends, as, really, it just begins.
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