Bending our knees
Our team has been road trip planning in full force this week- finalizing people to see and places to go. As seniors whose lives will change drastically next week, channelling anxious energy into this road trip project is one drug of choice for maintaining sanity. When we leave the familiar pace of Messiah, graduation will feels like a huge shock as we suddenly collide with the real world. In physics this year, we studied the variables involved in collisions (when one object exerts force on another). For example, impact is defined as the force exerted on an object over time. That’s why people bend their knees when they land a jump; it lengthens the landing time and so your bones experience less impact. So four years ago we launched our undergraduate leap and will soon be feeling the force of the real world. I appreciate that the road trip will lengthen the graduation transition time and then decrease the impact of this major life change.