Congratulations Seniors!!

Wow, pandemic or not, four years seems to go by faster and faster!  It's hard to believe we're saying goodbye to this group already!  As restrictions eased across the State and on campus, I invited the seniors out to my house for one last meal.  I didn't cook, however, because I still wasn't sure about those rules, so we got take-out from the Arcadian--one of the favorite restaurants in town (other than Sabai Sabai!)  

 Both Jaime and El were living off campus and still not allowed on campus until graduation, and Shea and Emma were living on campus so the only place we could all get together was off campus somewhere and since we were all vaccinated, including my kids, my house seemed like the perfect place.  

 We ate, laughed and talked about fun times and what's next.  A variety of choices with Emma headed to graduate school,  El working in NY, Shea as Mass General in clinical research, and at the time, Jaime was still undecided, but word has it that she will be staying in NY with a job offer coming right before graduation!  Congrats to you all, and more updates to come!  

 Graduation this year was in person, but to keep the overall numbers lower and to accommodate everyone's guests, there were 5 or 6 different mini ceremonies across campus.  While this was a little unfortunate because it's nice to have everyone be in ONE spot and share one graduation experience, it was certainly better than not having it be in person!  Here are a couple of the pictures the seniors sent me, since I also wasn't allowed to go this year.  It was graduates and family/guests only.  Brian and I always go and always really enjoy it, but at least the graduates got to have some sort of celebration in person with their families and some of their classmates.

Here are pictures from both Shea and El.  Shea's parents and sister came, and El's parents came.  The cane in the pictures is a MIDD Tradition, so I'll give a little more history on that sometime in the near future.  I'm also still hoping to get pictures from the other two...

 We will miss you ALL!  Good luck with your next adventures, and we look forward to seeing you back on campus to cheer us on, only this time as Alums!  But, as we all know...MCVB is family for life!