This moment makes it all worth it
A love letter to FJCC Class of 2025
I just took the biggest inhale and exhale to start writing. I don’t know exactly what I am writing, staying up for 27 hours can really mess with your head. But what I do know is that I am full of so much love and appreciation right now. FJCC25 (Fashion Journalism and Content Creation 2025) you’ve been great! Once I fully collect my thoughts and have a moment to really reflect, I’ll probably write this again. But today, I just want to say thank you.
Dear FJCC25,
I finished my assignment, then I was faced with the hardest part - pressing submit. Pressing submit means it’s really done. Everything I have been working towards the last three years comes to a close with the press of a button. But I did it! We did it!
The gravity of what has just happened today has not really hit me yet. I didn't feel tired, relieved, anxious, or even excited. I just noticed how irregular my breathing was and the bags forming under my eyes from three years of late nights. So I sat, then I went to sleep in the middle of the day to wake up at 3pm.
I debated going to the final social of uni, the nap only made me realise how tired I really was. But now at home, sitting and writing this, I am so glad I went. I am so glad I did the one last final push to (as cringe as it sounds) make my life feel like a High School Musical.
University is not meant to be done alone. Life is not meant to be done alone. Class of FJCC25, only we will know what our experience was like, so sharing that together today was so incredibly special. The memories of teeline lectures early on a Friday morning with the class half empty, or shared moments in the lobby waiting for a lift that takes WAY too long - those memories will always stay with me. All the cool work, outfits and ideas that bounced around the room will be a visual I never forget.
I can only wish you contentment and all that is good in this world. We are going to another stage of our life. It’s scary and uncertain, we have never done this part of life. But the only comfort is we don’t have to do it alone. We are communication students! Let’s share and connect with our experiences in this experiment we call life.
There is no wrong step, missed opportunity or failure when you are doing your best. Not your friends best, not previous alumni’s best - your best. Give yourself a round of applause. Before you even get your grades, congratulate yourself. Life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. It doesn’t matter where you placed, celebrate finishing.
Breathe in. Breathe out. You did it!
