2019 Commencement Countdown Paige Shippie Video Transcript

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My name is Paige Shippie.

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I came to Endicott in the year 2012

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and pursued an undergraduate degree

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in English and creative writing and

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an art studio minor.

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I went into the workforce and hated it.

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I wasn't meant to be there.

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Meanwhile, I had always worked jobs

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in hospitality ever since I was

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14 years old.

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Throughout it all, I realized I had

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a passion for hospitality and

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I wanted to go back to school.

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I couldn't think of a better school

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to go back to than Endicott.

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They really push me along to

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even study abroad at

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Les Roches, Switzerland

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and that is one the best

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hospitality management schools

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in the world.

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I never really felt as passionate in

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the workforce as now I do with

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the perspective that I have.

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I can actually apply things that I

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learned in my classroom or

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worked on projects for

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to things that I will be doing

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in hospitality management

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and especially with the internship

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Endicott has to offer.

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You know when I walk

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across that stage,

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it's going to be,

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'Wow, I earned a lot.'

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It has been a whirlwind of a journey.

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If I were to look back at myself

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two years from now or

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even more, I wouldn't really recognize

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the person I've become or

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the person I was and I've become

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somebody completely different but

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in a really great way and I knew

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I had it in me but you just kind of

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need the right circumstances in life

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to kind of push you forward,

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good and bad, but

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everything shapes you.