The end.

Hi guys.

I wrote this post right after graduation, so excuse the intense emotionality of it. I was traveling for awhile and finally am back home in Miami; although it's a bit late, I figured I would still post this.

I will be starting another blog in the next month so stay on the lookout!

xx

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Goodbye Vanderbilt.
Farewell Artsy Nash.
Hello, World.

College is over and so is my blog. I don’t really now how to feel. Weird? Sad? Nostalgic? Of course, these feelings don’t arise from the fact that my short lived blog is now coming to an end but that this part of my life is coming to an end.

I graduated. We graduated. And that in itself is daunting. Now is the time for us to search, to look for places that move us, that make us want to grow creatively, professionally, artistically, and emotionally...

Now is the time that we can really find ourselves. Keywords: by ourselves.

So, what next?

For now, I'll be moving to NYC at the end of June, working at New York Magazine, where I interned two summers ago. And although it’s sad that college is over, I can’t wait to start this next part of my life. Not only will I be in the writing world, a great starting place for my future endeavors, I will also be in New York City, the hub of creativity. I can’t wait to meet all kinds of new people and expose myself to new kinds of art. I think it will be such an inspiring experience.

But before I make this move, I write this last post as a thank you...

I thank both my professors and Vanderbilt as an institution for helping me grow academically. The knowledge I have acquired is invaluable and will guide me as I search for my place in the world.

I thank my friends for the thrill of the college years: the transitioning, the traveling, the raging, the chilling, the learning and the bonding. I thank you all for allowing me to experience what it means to actually become really close to people.

And I thank you artsy Nashville, the city outside the bubble that I only really discovered my last year at Vanderbilt. I thank Nashville for showing me a world of art that I love so much and hope to monumentally incorporate into the next part my life.

It’s all of you -- all of you who “turn me” -- whom have helped me become the person I am right now.



Mr. Braddock: What is it, Ben?
Benjamin: I'm just...
Mr. Braddock: Worried?
Benjamin: Well...
Mr. Braddock: About what?
Benjamin: I guess about my future.
Mr. Braddock: What about it?
Benjamin: I don't know... I want it to be...
Mr. Braddock: To be what?
Benjamin: Different.

- The Graduate