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The week after I graduated high school in June 2016, my best friend and I loaded up her minivan and made the trek to Orono for our freshman orientation. We were 18, and we had all the time in the world ahead of us — 2020 hardly seemed like a real year. As we sat on the football field’s bleachers, surrounded by strangers, listening to speeches and fumbling our way through the Stein Song, it seemed like the next four years would stretch out forever.



