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Kristin Kiang 江庭
Class of 2012
Optometrist

After all of these years, I was surprised sentimental, as I remember high school to be a
to learn that IBSH continued using the same very bittersweet period in my life. There was
panther design as the school mascot. I barely immense pressure to perform academically
remembered when or why I designed it in while simultaneously navigating a complex

the first place, so I searched through my old and delicate social landscape as a young adult.
high school email, hoping to find something High school was a period of significant growth
that would jog my memory. An email from and self-discovery, but also of insecurity and

"graphic canvas" titled "Meeting recap" uncertainty. It is not uncommon for many to
looked promising. I clicked into it, and as I completely close this chapter of their lives as
read the meeting minutes, the memories began they graduate and move on to their next phase
flooding back. in life, never looking back.
It was my senior year of high school and To be completely truthful, a part of me

I was a part of a graphic design club called did feel that way. Yes, there are memories
"graphic canvas". We were asked to come up I look back upon fondly - trips to Hi-Life
with a design for a t-shirt sale on field day, during break, attending concerts and dances,

and the design had to be panther-related and going to Jin-shan after school, and maybe
include the color green. After several sketches even the weekly flag ceremony on Wednesday
and iterations, I asked my classmate Sandra to early mornings. I still smile when I think
digitalize the drawing in Photoshop. The final of the times where we'd slide down on the
version, which had a black or white variation stair handles, or the awkward dance we had

of the panther, was then submitted to BDSC. to perform during field day. But, there are
Fast forward nearly ten and a half years, I difficult and even painful memories as well.
learned that the same design is still being used I remember feeling isolated and struggling to

on the school merch, website, and now a large fit in for many years and the grueling hours of
brand-new mural at school. studying only to fail a test. I was constantly
Seeing all of this brings me so much battling self-doubt, anxiety, and depression. At
joy and pride, yet I cannot help but also feel times, it seemed more bitter than sweet.

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