How lucky am i to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard meaning

I hereby resign my position as a Head of MRU LegalTech Centre. It has been an honor to lead MRU LegalTech Centre since 2018 June. I am proud of what we have accomplished: two new master programs Legaltech LLM and Master of Laws "Law, Technology and Business", series of events, such as Legaltech meetups, annual Legaltech@Vilnius conference, legal hackathons, one-week international bootcamp Access2Justice4Refugees; we had trainees from Turkey, Italy, France, Belarus, Lithuania, and Moldova; our supervised Ph.D. student made the first research, which was presented at IRIS 2020; we created a legaltech ecosystem around the Centre to support Legaltech LLM program; our trainee has won 3 awards at LEXI AI GENERATION – powered by IBM Watson; we have launched two AI powered chatbots to support legal registration process and marketing of Legaltech LLM; we organized a lot of legaltech promotion events at local schools, and even school kids and teachers came to MRU from 5 countries for gamified legaltech&enterprenship lecture; we have presented at Legaltech Lab of Helsinki university, also Tartu university and Vytautas Magnus university, also at Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania (ALAL), Prosecutor General‘s Office and Chamber of notaries; we tried our unicorn idea challenges at Startup Fair, LOGIN, MITA “Looking for innovator” competition and Startup Summit Kaunas 2018.

Moreover, we did it with empty pockets but a hudge enthusiasm ;)

Thank you for the opportunity to serve as a Head of MRU LegalTech Centre.

With gratitude and warm regards,

Ph.D. Martynas Mockus

I will be graduating in exactly 13 days, and it’s difficult to accept this. In the past few weeks, I have been gradually coming to terms with the fact that I have less than two weeks to wrap up this 4-year-long journey. Although I am excited to begin my professional career in New York, a large part of me has felt nostalgic in leaving behind a place and a community that has become a second home to me. The overall feeling has been bittersweet, and recently, I came across a quote that has helped me come to terms with these sentiments. Growing up, I spent most of my Saturday morning watching Winnie the Pooh cartoons recorded on VHS tapes. I may not have realized until now, but looking back, Winnie the Pooh was bestowing upon the kind of wisdom that I am just starting to appreciate. One of the quotes that hit home now, as I prepare to leave State College, is this: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

I am truly lucky. I understand that not everyone has the opportunity to find a second home at Penn State. Although for many, Penn State is a source of pride and a place of memories they will always cherish dearly, it is a large community where individuals can easily feel lost in the mass culture that defines Penn State. In the midst of “We Are,” it can be challenging to retain a sense of “I Am,” but luckily for me, Penn State has been a place where I was able to customize my experience, selecting among an abundance of opportunities the ones of which I wanted to be a part, the ones with which I wanted to craft a unique journey comprised of friendships, self-development, and pure fun.

Coming to Penn State after my gap year, during which I lost my initial dream of becoming a musician, was difficult. I had spent an entire year in South Korea, where the language, culture, and societal norms are extremely different from those of the U.S. I felt thrown into this community, lost without direction, falling behind my peers who had already conquered their freshman year. Since I had been set on becoming a performer for all of my life, I now felt rushed to choose another dream, and it felt impossible to believe that I could become just as passionate about a career that didn’t involve music.

But I did. Slowly, I was introduced to courses that I would have never wanted to explore, and given opportunities to nurture of the parts of me that I had neglected in my stubborn pursuit. I quickly realized that pursuing another major didn’t have to mean an elimination of my love for music; with my a cappella group, I found an oasis, but with public relations, French, and global and international studies, I found other ways of expressing myself that I never would have thought would suffice, but they did, and much more.

I fell in love with the sultry winters, the teasing rays of sunshine that would come and go. I fell in love with the way Old Main looked in all seasons, illuminated by snow, picturesquely covered by colored leaves, or surrounded by supple grass and blooming tulips. I fell in love with the moments I spent there and other places with my friends. I fell in love with my friends, who showed me the sides of me I never knew existed and supported me throughout some of the most tough times of my life. I fell in love with the Pattee mall and the tranquil silence I could listen to when I walked home from the library at 3 a.m., the empty campus lit up with the soft lighting from street lamps. I fell in love with everything Penn State had to offer and more.

Penn State, the campus, the people, and the community, and all the memories surrounding it, will forever be held dearly in my heart. I will miss it, and I am truly lucky to have had an amazing journey at Penn State, which makes it so hard for me to leave.

Thou didst mold me, dear Old State. Thank you.

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