{"id":13892,"date":"2018-05-18T20:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=13892"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:45:47","slug":"finding-home-sharks-miami-dade-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/finding-home-sharks-miami-dade-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding A Home At Miami Dade College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For sharks to live, they must keep moving endlessly. They must always find a way forward.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I, like many of the students moving on from our time at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Miami Dade College<\/span><\/a>, are the sharks\u2014both in name and in spirit.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether we arrived here by choice or by necessity, we had taken a step forward in our life. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I had first arrived at Miami Dade College, there were times where I felt discouraged\u2014embarrassed even\u2014at the fact that I was \u201cstuck at Dade like everyone else.\u201d However, in time, I found myself a place in this vast and daunting reef of a school. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, it came in the form of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Reporter<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Being introduced to the student newspaper by a suggestion from my English professor, I came to know that there was more to MDC then being \u201cHigh School 2.0.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting as an opinion writer, I slowly began to learn how to write articles and that led me to eventually being published in every section of the paper. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What I came to realize was that it wasn\u2019t just about the stories I was writing and the photos I was taking, it was about putting a part of myself in this black ink\u2014in every letter and every punctuation.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also came to know that forward was never a direction but a state of mind. Forward is the urge to learn what you had never known and work like you never had before.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last two years were a time for, not finding myself, but creating myself\u2014creating the person I always wanted to be.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had created my voice, one that I never truly believed I had or ever would have. I made myself into not only a more complete writer, but a more complete person.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time of this being published, I will have already reached the end of my MDC journey. I will have walked across the stage of graduation and received my diploma. I may already be on my way to my next destination.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wherever I may go next, be it near or far, I will be moving forward. I know that I will go on to make myself better than I am now. I will be in search of greater achievements and a brighter future for myself, as should you, the reader.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We stand now at the edge of the reef. Out in front of us, lies the open ocean. Like sharks, we must move forward.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For sharks to live, they must keep moving endlessly. They must always find a way forward. I, like many of the students moving on from our time at Miami Dade College, are the sharks\u2014both in name and in spirit. 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