Adeley Dellinger has spent her senior year with a full class schedule to graduate in the December commencement.
On Saturday, Dec. 18 at 3 p.m. Adeley Dellinger will be sitting in Liston B. Ramsey Center wearing her mask, waiting for her commencement ceremony to begin. As a first-generation college student, her family will be in the building waiting for her name to be called.
She is one of the 1,243 students that are eligible for December graduation commencement. She is majoring in Integrated Health Science with a concentration in management which means she will be walking away with a Health and Human Sciences degree and is already securing a position with Home Health Care following graduation. She will be managing the office and assigning nurses to houses that need home health care. The company has shown an interest in her and her skills since August of 2018 when she began working for them.
She is excited and nervous and a bit disappointed.
“I feel like COVID affected everything about college. I feel as though classes haven’t really been beneficial towards my degree because of having online classes,” Dellinger said.
She admits she is nervous about how overwhelming the new job will be. She will no longer be a student but stepping out into the working world. The pandemic will have an impact on that too.
“I believe that COVID-19 will take a toll on my career because of all the new mandates and protocols that have been put in place in a healthcare setting,” she adds.
Her family will travel from Hickory, North Carolina to see her strut across the stage as a first-generation college student. Her mother, father, grandparents, and all three brothers and their spouses will be there ready to give her a long-awaited congratulations.
