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SSC grad: The first semester, the last semester, and 20 years in between
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Michelle Mayfield took the path her family expected of her when she graduated from high school in 1992. She enrolled at Seminole State College that fall. She planned to complete her degree, find a career, settle down, and carve out a life for herself. However, she quickly discovered life rarely sticks to the plan.
Mayfield found that with the increased agency of adulthood came a decrease in the clarity of her goals. From elementary school through high school, she had been an exemplary student. She completed her assignments on time, made good grades, and the goal was clear: get to the next grade. But upon graduating from high school, she found herself unsure of what major she should choose, of what job she should pursue.
Being stranded at the airport overnight, sleeping on your luggage, getting bumped from one flight to the next, is not something anyone soon forgets. Listen now as Angela recalls being a college student in Boston when this happened to her. She’s speaking to Jonathan Mayfield.
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