This meme assignment instructed students to take any photo featured on the Boston Globe page, The Big Picture, and create a meme, transforming the meaning of the picture.  I chose a picture of a nursing graduate at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  As soon as I saw the photo, I was struck by the graduate’s emotions.  I could almost feel her relief and happiness that she had overcome one of the major hurdles of life.   As a student myself and as an employee working with students daily, I understand the struggle and determination it takes to make it to graduation.  At the same time though, I thought, “Now she is going to have to pay back her student loans!” We all know the state of student loan debt in the U.S. is bad:  Forbes.com cites that as 2019, about 44 million people in the U.S. as a whole owe a staggering $1.5 trillion in student loan debt.  It is a serious issue that we all have to contemplate, but as with all overwhelming issues, why not laugh a little about it?  To create this meme, I copied the picture in Word, saved it as a picture, and uploaded it to Meme Generator.   I added my text and took a screenshot, edited the screenshot in Word, cut out the annoying logo, and saved it as a picture to upload into WordPress Media Library.

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