Full Circle – How I Began & Will End at Ithaca College?

I don’t believe in fate exactly but I do believe that things happen for a reason.

Back in April 2010 my stubborn mother demanded that I visit Ithaca College one more time before I sent my deposit in. So during Spring Break I grabbed a friend and went up to IC for three days . We crashed with our friend who was a Theater Arts Management freshman and took the few days to take tours, see a Dillingham production of Floyd Collins and sit in on some classes. My friend’s “big” was an Integrated Marketing Communications minor and asked if I was interested in coming to sit in on her Marketing on the Internet course. That’s what I did. After 50 mins of discussion about Chat Roulette, the Jersey Shore and some amazing final project presentations, I walked out of the classroom and immediately called my mother to tell her to put my deposit into the mail. I’m going to Ithaca College!

3.5 years later it is rather sentimental that the first class I ever sat in at Ithaca College will also be my last. On Friday at 1pm I will experience the last class of my undergraduate career and appropriately it will be Marketing on the Internet with the same professor I took it with almost 4 years ago.

Oh, how much I have changed over the last 3.5 years but I am absolutely grateful that 1) my mother demanded I visit IC one last time and 2) that I got to sit in on that class and just see a preview of what my experience at Ithaca was about to be. Honestly, even then I didn’t realize how amazing it truly would and how lucky I am to have met so many incredible people. Yup. I’m going to miss it.