These past three days have been nostalgic for me. Alumni weekend does that – especially since it’s been 20-some years since I graduated from a liberal arts college. A graduate and published author called our school “neo-hippie”. Many of us have referred to it, at one point or another, as “artsy fartsy”. Isn’t that what those meaningless liberal arts colleges are anyway? Expensive yet not career minded or helpful in finding a job?
Upon reflection, after attending a class on the women of East Berlin after the fall of the wall and listening to a panel of writers talk about their journey and share their stories, I’ve had a new moment of truth. My liberal arts education, which I’ve always valued on the micro level with specific memories of classes and professors, has at the macro level taught me at least two very important things in life:
1. Become critical thinkers in everything we do
2. Do something that is both meaningful to the individual and to society
And how amazing our graduating class is, along with the graduates before and especially after us!
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