The countdown is on for finals, the last day of classes and most importantly graduation. Many of you will be studying for exams for the last time, selling back expensive text books that you probably only opened once or twice and packing up the room that you have occupied for the past two semesters. The place where you have called home for the past four years will be taken over by a new freshman class and your roommates as well as your own name will eventually be scrubbed off the door that you so proudly signed when moving in for the very last time.
The past four years have dragged on for many. Since freshman year some have stayed, some have gone and yet come back, some have transferred to bigger and better, and then there are those that couldn't handle being away and moved back home. We are the ones however that have stayed, we have endured fights, laughter, good times, and especially the bad times. We have come together as a community over the past four years to help each other deal with the pain of losing loved ones as well as everything else that has gone on either on or around campus that effects us as a community and standing up for what we believe in. We have aced exams together and failed them as well. We have sat with each other endlessly at the cafe usually in the same place everyday, with the same people to the right and left of us. Now as we study together for the last time, as we complain about all the work that our professors have piled on us with just a few weeks left of school remaining, we all have sat down in the last couple of weeks whether we want to admit it or not to think about how our lives are changing, and how being grown up doesn't have that same ring to it like it once did.
The stress of graduating is sitting on our shoulders, and yet no one will admit that they are sad to leave this place, they just simply throw up their shoulders and say good ridden. In all reality, the thought of not packing up at the end of summer to come back to school for the following semester has hit everyone. We have all thought about it, stressed about it, cried about, and laughed about the fact that we actually made it through these four years in one piece. It's an accomplishment that so many wish they could say that they have completed. Yet there are so many that haven't been so lucky to complete their four years or even worse get the chance to go to college to further their education.
So as your name is called during commencement and you walk up on stage to receive that piece of paper look you've worked so diligently for, look out to the crowd at all the familiar faces. Remember these faces because whether we want to believe it or not we might not ever see them again. Most importantly these are the ones that got us through these four years, they pulled the all nighter's, they bailed us out from difficult times, and gave us a shoulder whenever needed. Also smile for knowing that you had the chance to meet so many great people over the last four years here.
Once you walk off the stage and shake hands with all those that are congratulating you on your great accomplishment take a second to congratulate your self on a job well done.
Congratulations to the graduating class of 2008, it's been a long road but we made it. Follow your heart, and keep your dreams in tow.
God Bless
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