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ARTWORK: Yige Xu
Up Next: The Rest of Forever Anonymous CW: this article contains strong language, brief mention of mental health and brief mention of sexual assault. Three weeks left of life at ANU. I’m on the brink of graduating. Supposedly, I’m at the culmination point of a three (and a half) year degree. Graduating from university with a bachelor’s degree was always supposed to be such a moment, the hat, the robe and a nice, fresh slip of paper. However, this ‘brink’ that I’m on, feels considerably less significant. I’m a semester overdue and I feel like I’ve already checked out. I feel as though I’ve gotten as much out of ANU as I desired, kicked the goals, had the fun, and ground out a degree in the highlypractical ‘International Relations’. What is this brink? Will graduation be a single, satisfying moment of achievement and celebration, or will it just be a formality, hardly a blip on the radar, of what matters to me?
