The end of something. The start of something else.

We had one window, in the middle of a graduation, to ask the question nobody else was asking. Not “what did you achieve?” but “who did you become?”

In the room:

Reflected on what you brought into university and what you built here
Named the strengths you didn’t have when you started
Chose one thing to actually do with everything you’ve learned
Said it out loud to someone next to you
Not everyone went deep. Some did. That’s always how it goes in a room with a lot of people.

The ones who did left with something to carry forward.