HARLINGEN — She had just ventured through the bright lights, returning with her diploma firmly in hand.
“It feels overwhelming,” said Andrea Hernandez, one of 77 seniors who graduated yesterday from Early College High School.
The ECHS ceremony took place at the Harlingen school district’s Performing Arts Center. They walked across the stage, proud they’d completed a rigorous curriculum which involved earning college credit and a diploma at the same time. They took their college classes at Texas State Technical College.
They recalled all the long hours they’d put in to reach this day, but there was no tone of complaint, only celebration.
“If it wasn’t five projects at once, it was a new 10-page essay, or three finals in one day,” Salutatorian Danielle Del Bosque said with a laugh.
Some might think she was exaggerating. She wasn’t. Nor was she overplaying the struggles some of her classmates had faced.
“A number of graduates here today have been confronted with significant challenges of their own,” she said, not specifying further. After all, struggle is struggle.
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