# @provcollege on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CPlnO8il720
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17728356-provcollege-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-06-01T18:31:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Providence College (@provcollege) — https://gondola.cc/provcollege

## Caption

Matthew Lynch '21 is one of six members of his immediate family to graduate from Providence College, in addition to both of his grandfathers, two great uncles, two aunts, and three uncles. But this member of #PC2021 didn’t always plan to attend. 

“I had been going to the same schools as my siblings since pre-school, and all the teachers already knew my name by the time I got there,” Matthew said. He had been on campus many times to visit his siblings and during his father’s term as president of the National Alumni Association Council. 

Matthew’s perspective changed when, at his parents’ insistence, he toured the College. 

“The day I toured PC I was already in a bad mood. I was going to be late for the first home game of my senior year of football. I had already seen the College as a brother dropping something off at a dorm,” Matthew said. “But then I saw PC from a student’s perspective. I saw that I wouldn’t be a little brother, but that I could keep sharing those deep roots with my siblings my whole life.”

Go to our link in bio to read more about the end of the Lynch family legacy at Providence College — at least for now.

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