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Alake Pilgrim,<\/strong> from Trinidad, West Indies<\/em> –<\/strong> “Now that I’m leaving and I look back and recall certain moments\u2026like sitting at a table with somebody chattering off in Nepali, arguing with my friend from Israel about the war, being in China and pinching myself everyday and saying ‘Oh my God, how did I get to China?’ I think I realize now that I am leaving: I may be bruised in some places, I may have a thicker skin, but I definitely think that I am leaving open as well, open to embrace the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alake Pilgrim, from Trinidad, West Indies – “Now that I’m leaving and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":2347,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355\/revisions\/3945"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}