In honor of our 45th Reunion in 2020, classmates were requested to respond to the following prompt:
What advice would you give your 21-year-old self? How is your life different from what you imagined it would be as a Carleton student and how would you describe your career path? What do you most value about your Carleton experience? How do you plan to spend the rest of what the poet Mary Oliver calls this “one wild and precious life”? Meryl Streep once said, “The world is more like high school than college.” Do you agree?
Following are the responses received.