Jacklynn Blanchard is a recent graduate from University of Colorado Boulder. We’ve had the pleasure of working with Jacklynn as an outstanding intern and now a new hire at LifeBound. After hearing the tragic news of the new graduate Marina Keegan’s senseless death, she was inspired to reflect on her own feelings about graduation and life after college.Â
The death of Marina Keegan, a recent graduate from Yale, resonated for me in a way that felt almost as if a bit of myself had also perished on that Cape Cod highway on Saturday afternoon, albeit an idealized self that has yet to come to fruition and perhaps never will. Still I felt, and continue to feel, this deep sense of sadness at the loss of such a young life on the cusp of something great. I couldn’t help but see the parallels between my aspirations for myself and what Marina had achieved. I had once dreamed of being an Ivy League graduate who would live in New York City and work for the New Yorker, and that was exactly what Marina was about to do. She was a recent Yale graduate who had graduated Magna Cum Laude, had been the President of the Yale College Democrats and a writer for the Yale Daily News, and had landed an editorial assistant job at the New Yorker and an apartment in Brooklyn that she would have moved into in June.
