India, June 15 -- A LinkedIn post by Kim Patel, a Harvard alum of Indian origin, is resonating with professionals online. Patel shared that she had been dreading her five-year Harvard reunion for months, citing the pressure of reconnecting with successful classmates and reflecting on the past five years of her own life.

In her post, Patel explained that she belongs to Harvard's pandemic class. After spending just one semester together in 2019, classmates went their separate ways and many had not met since.

As the reunion approached, she noticed a common feeling among her peers. "Everyone was teetering on anxious. Nobody knew how to say it out loud," she wrote.

Patel said she eventually found a way to describe what she was feeling. She ...