Samuel has officially graduated from Cornell University (assuming he doesn't have an outstanding library fine), as of May 27, 2022. We have been assured his diploma will be mailed in the very near future.
After receiving his transfer option (in very fine print) in 2018, Samuel arrived on campus in 2019 as a sophmore after a year at Kenyon College to enjoy a year of academic normalcy and calf building as he conquered "the slope" daily, trudging from his West side dorm to classes uphill in the CALS quad in bad and very bad weather.
In the Fall of 2019, he moved into the oldest fraternity on campus, Zeta Psi, with no slope, and many new friends (aka brothers). Then this mysterious virus from Wuhan made its way to America, and in March 2020, he was packing up and heading home to learn virtually. When Cornell did resume in person it was with masking, social distancing, and thrice weekly testing. His "pod" was his fraternity, where he was free to move about maskless. He also took long walks on Cornell's extensive and beautiful campus, maskless. He made do, as we all did.
By the time he graduated, masks were only encouraged, and we were able to enjoy a basically normal graduation. Of course, in Ithaca, it "ithacates" in unexpected bursts of pelting rain. We got a taste of that, huddled under umbrellas, while Samuel got soaked during his processional. President Martha Pollack encouraged the graduates to avoid becoming social media influencers, and become influencers of long lasting value. I appreciated her point.
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