Now Boarding: Gone Before You Know It
From the desk of Shawn Rhoads, Director of Residential Life:
If your life is anything like mine you are running for extended periods of time at very high RPMs. 聽It seems聽like it鈥檚 been like that since returning from Spring Break.聽 We all have the finish line in sight and live with the admixture of stress and anticipation perpetually until school is out.
Something I have noticed that happens at this time of year is I turn around on the day after graduation and realize, 鈥淭hey鈥檙e gone!鈥� That is followed by a flash of panic and regret.聽 I鈥檓 referring to the boarding seniors.聽 While our East Texas graduates may have the opportunity to come by and say their final good-byes the weeks following graduation, our boarding students get on planes the next day and head home.聽 It鈥檚 easy to forget that and then find yourself wishing you had made the time to tell them what they mean to you.聽 Maybe you have had that experience as well.聽 I just wanted to send this out while there is still time and encourage you to take time to say good-bye to this year鈥檚 boarding seniors before they board their flights.
This year鈥檚 boarding graduates are:聽Danielle Adams, Tito Babatunde, Eddy Briggs, Favour Diokpo, Grace Falken, 聽Junbo Li, 聽Xiqing Lu, Erica Luong, Ben Nguyen, Janet Nwachukwu, Bridget Nwodo, Reigneth Oguni, Elim Oluwole, Tiffany Pu, Mariah Rogers, Alberto Romero-Elias, Ebuka Uzoma, Alyse Whitcomb, Cowboy Xie
