no more graduation scrolls

we have two college seniors in the house right now; our daughter and her boyfriend. they are finishing out their final quarter of college with online classes. the classes seem to be going well enough. but they are missing their campus friends a lot. they had orchestrated their four years at college so they would have lightish spring quarters in their senior year so they could have time to hang with their friends–a sort of 10 week slow goodbye before they all spread across the globe. two weeks before the rest of the nation, they were abruptly kicked off campus when some of the first US cases of coronavirus showed up on stanford campus. as is the case almost everywhere else, there will be no graduation ceremony for them this june. they are a generation who grew up during the great recession. who are graduating into a worldwide pandemic. and yet somehow “millenials” has become a byword for a sort of privileged and checked-out triviality. ok boomer.

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