So…I graduated college last week. Cue forty-five minute rant of every brutally honest thought and unpopular opinion I’ve held inside for the past four years! Haha! On today’s episode of HTG, we’re going off-script. I sit down in my cap and gown to review allllll the complicated emotions and realizations surrounding not only graduation, but the whole of my (now complete) experience at Johns Hopkins University.

We’ll talk about evolving friendships, life in a new city, career panic, social anxiety + insecurity, and the search for community + steadiness amid abruptly changing circumstances. I review how the challenges I faced during undergrad better equipped me for the future, even if I used to feel like they’d ruined everything forever. We get underneath the glittery blanket that media throws over the college experience and consider how to walk away from campus with peace and confidence despite the manifold forms of loss, mistreatment, and confusion that these most formative years present to us. 

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TW: mention of SA, grief/loss