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Triplets graduating from 51�Թ��� this Sunday talk about their four years together on campus and their plans for the future that will keep them much farther apart.

The Cross triplets – Mellissa, Paige, and Adam – are among the seniors featured on a modified that mashable.com calls . So far, more than 230 seniors have placed themselves on the map, letting classmates and the alumni network know what they are pursuing or what jobs, fellowships, and graduate school acceptances they already have secured.

In addition to the Cross siblings, seven other seniors — Benae Beamon, Jason Cohen, Christopher Dell’Amore, Brian Gittau, Meghan Healey, Shannon Luckey, and Brenton Um — are featured in video profiles that provide a sampling of the varied campus experiences and post-graduation opportunities that 51�Թ��� students enjoy.

Adam Cross is flanked by his sisters Paige (left) and Mellissa in this 2007 photo.

 

Paige, Mellissa, and Adam talk in the video studio at Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology earlier this month.

 

The triplets graduated in the top of their class at Marathon High School near Cortland, N.Y. , Adam summed up what the trio found most appealing about attending 51�Թ��� together: “It’s small enough so we can see each other and big enough that if we don’t want to see each other we can do our own thing.”

The triplets did see a lot of each other during their four years, and they expressed some sadness about going their separate ways after commencement.

“Going to the same college together wasn’t that much different than doing everything else together,” said Paige. “It was kind of like a transition from high school, where we saw each other every day, to the real world, where we’re not going to see each other,” she said in a wavering voice.

Paige majored in educational studies and Spanish, and she received a Fulbright English teaching assistantship in Ecuador. Before going abroad, she will work for , a residential community for people with Down syndrome, through a fellowship program offered by the university’s .

Adam, a psychology major, will work for , a youth-centered program in Providence, R.I., before pursuing a graduate degree, and Mellissa, a geology major, will be studying paleoclimatology at the .

All seniors and their achievements will be celebrated this Sunday at the university’s 190th , which begins at 10:30 a.m. and will feature keynote speaker Howard Fineman ’70, renowned political reporter, editor, author, and commentator.

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