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Today's guest post comes from Mary-Grace Reeves, founder of The American Girl Book Club. Last month marked a significant milestone for the members of the Pensacola High School Class of 2012, as well as high school seniors across the country: graduation. This ceremony embodied both a celebration of our diligent academic efforts and the start of a new chapter in our lives, as we continue to pursue our education. As the familiar tune of “Pomp and Circumstance” echoed throughout the auditorium and the proud graduates entered with their shining caps and gowns, I could not help remembering discussions I had held just days earlier with my classmates about our intended careers. Dreams of becoming nuclear engineers. Neurosurgeons. Biochemists. Physicists. And myself, a pediatric ophthalmologist.