{"id":24448,"date":"2024-06-06T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/?p=24448"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:20:55","slug":"may-2024-grads-reflect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/news\/2024\/06\/may-2024-grads-reflect\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2024 Grads Reflect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we said congratulations and celebrated our May 2024 graduates, the pride in their hard work, growth and their reflection on the strength of our program then turned to wistful smiles as we hugged them one last time, encouraging each one to stay in touch as they will always be part of the Pack. Our recent grads offer reflections on their favorite moment from their big day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/Riley-Sepesi-grad-598x336-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/Riley-Sepesi-grad-598x336-1.jpg 598w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/Riley-Sepesi-grad-598x336-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rylee Sepesi, heading to Procter &amp; Gamble in Georgia, recalls &#8220;walking into Reynolds to the march and hearing\/feeling everyone cheering for us. In that moment, I felt that I truly had made it and was surrounded by love.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/598x336-px-Hannah-Getsee-and-Lucy-Huitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/598x336-px-Hannah-Getsee-and-Lucy-Huitt.jpg 598w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/598x336-px-Hannah-Getsee-and-Lucy-Huitt-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My favorite moment from graduation day was getting to spend a few moments with all my classmates in the same place for the last time together, sharing our favorite college memories and laughing with each other!&#8221;  Hannah Getsee celebrates with Lucy Huitt.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We offer our congratulations once more to the NC State Paper Science and Engineering Class of 2024!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/May-24-grad-compilation-1024x792.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/May-24-grad-compilation-1024x792.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/May-24-grad-compilation-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/May-24-grad-compilation-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/May-24-grad-compilation-1536x1187.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/May-24-grad-compilation.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As we said congratulations and celebrated our May 2024 graduates, the pride in their hard work, growth and their reflection on the strength of our program then turned to wistful smiles as we hugged them one last time, encouraging each one to stay in touch as they will always be part of the Pack. Our recent grads offer reflections on their favorite moment from their big day.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":24450,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/Riley-Sepesi-grad-598x336-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24450\"\/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Rylee Sepesi, heading to Procter &amp; Gamble in Georgia, recalls \"walking into Reynolds to the march and hearing\/feeling everyone cheering for us. In that moment, I felt that I truly had made it and was surrounded by love.\"<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":24451,\"sizeSlug\":\"full\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/598x336-px-Hannah-Getsee-and-Lucy-Huitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24451\"\/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\"My favorite moment from graduation day was getting to spend a few moments with all my classmates in the same place for the last time together, sharing our favorite college memories and laughing with each other!\"  Hannah Getsee celebrates with Lucy Huitt.\"<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We offer our congratulations once more to the NC State Paper Science and Engineering Class of 2024!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":24453,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2024\/06\/May-24-grad-compilation-1024x792.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24453\"\/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we said congratulations and celebrated our May 2024 graduates, the pride in their hard work, growth and their reflection on the strength of our program then turned to wistful smiles as we hugged them one last time, encouraging each one to stay in touch as they will always be part of the Pack. Our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":24449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,72,39,158,27],"tags":[198,153],"class_list":["post-24448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-forest-biomaterials-newsletter","category-paper-science-and-engineering","category-pse-2024-news-stories","category-pse-newsletter","tag-graduation","tag-ncsupse"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24455,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24448\/revisions\/24455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/fb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}