{"id":6770,"date":"2022-04-15T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6770"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T18:50:13","slug":"im-sad-to-see-people-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6770","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Sad to See People Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Rebecca Dance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is my first real semester being friends with people who are graduating, and it\u2019s worse than I thought it would be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could feel the dread in the air when finals began looming over the horizon. For a moment, that was all I thought about the end of April: we were going to take finals and we were going to go home and then I would come back and see all of my senior friends again in the fall. I definitely failed to realize (even after the 50 Days celebration) that this image I had for the fall was incorrect. It wasn\u2019t until this last weekend when seniors started posting on social media about the last time they would do something that it really sank in. My friends are leaving.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m really sad about it! It will be really weird next year when I think about something I want to talk to them about and then I realize that I can\u2019t just march into their rooms. It\u2019ll be weird not seeing them around campus and waving while we walk to class. I\u2019ve had the class of 2022 to guide me through college since I first got here, and now they\u2019re going off into the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As sad as I am about my friends going forward with their lives, I know that they\u2019re going to do wonderful things. I am so excited to watch them on their journey to being real adults. Class of 2022, I wish you all the best of luck.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rebecca Dance This is my first real semester being friends with people who are graduating, and it\u2019s worse than I thought it would be.\u00a0 I could feel the dread in the air when finals began looming over the horizon. For a moment, that was all I thought about the end of April: we were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/goodbye2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}