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Odyssey, I Thank You And Bid You Farewell

After a year of being an Odyssey creator, I'm sadly saying goodbye.

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Odyssey, I Thank You And Bid You Farewell
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As they say, all good things must come to an end.

Being a creator for my Odyssey community from April 2017 to April 2018 is one such thing for me.

I graduate from college in three days, and I am feeling many things at once. I feel like I'm about to relish in the feeling that being a new graduate will give me, and I feel like I am burying things from my past that do not apply to me anymore. I feel like I have done good in certain areas and not so good in others, and that I will face whatever challenges lie ahead of me with the same gusto I have applied for my (nearly) 22 years of life.

What has Odyssey done for me, you ask?

Well, a lot.

It was the first platform for which I could say I have published content for.

I felt like a real YouTuber or blogger when I would link my articles to my Instagram stories and say "LINK IN BIO" so my fans (followers) could read them.

I felt so excited every time I was writing an article on something I was passionate about, from Louis Tomlinson to why I hate sneezing to where in the world I want to travel to in 2018.

It felt fabulous logging into Muse and being faced with the same white, empty, clear space every time I was about to draft an article, like the whole world was waiting for my ideas.

I felt important, like a real contributing member of society, being a little official writer and publishing content about whatever I wanted to discuss.

I loved that I could write about the most serious topics to the silliest in just a week's time.

I loved coming up with ideas for my social media brief and headline photo, and resizing and cropping images that didn't fit the size requirement.

I loved reading the little comment blurbs my editors would leave me in Muse on an article they particularly liked or loved, and even the comments that had me strengthening my article here and there.

I enjoyed the constant flurry of emails from both GCU community leaders to Marguerite from NYC. It was all just so official and bloggy, ya know?

But, I know that for now, my time with Odyssey will end here.

Maybe I'll pursue a blog of my own, or maybe I'll be so consumed with LSAT studying this summer that I'll be crying and longing for the days where my primary concern was getting my article in by 5 PM on Wednesday.

Regardless of that scenario, I know I'll be reading my articles months and probably years from now since articles are live forever. I'll enjoy remembering what I was obsessed with at this moment in time or what my life was like as I was writing certain pieces.

Thank you to Lily Moe for interviewing me and bringing me onto this fabulous team a year ago! And thank you to Shannon for being an incredible successor!

And now, no more emotional stuff. WE CAN'T CRY! I promised myself if I shed even one tear this week it would be game over.

But I'll still be dramatic one last time in French.

(You can Google translate it as soon as you're done reading it.)

Odyssey,

Jusqu'à la prochaine fois.

xoxo,

Larsa

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