The end of another semester

 
Well, it’s that time again–the end of another semester. The Bayou Classic has passed. Christmas is on it’s way and you are so ready to go home that you can see the dust in the corner of your room from the last time you were there.
Time has come to beg for those grades and reschedule to make sure you can go through those oh so crucial repeat and deletes next semester.
You are winding down on another chapter in SU history and for those lucky one’s, the last chapter is quickly coming to a close.
Congratulations Seniors! You are doing the one thing that everyone on this campus has in common, completing the one goal that is universal, for most of us. You are about to receive a small piece of lambskin that will symbolize your last 16-20 years of work. Something you have, well most of you have, prepared your whole life for. And no matter how prevalent it was on your eighteenth and twenty-first birthdays that you were an adult, this is the deciding moment and forceful reality you are officially on your own.
Now for those who have decided to continue their education, be in graduate school, law school, medical school, for some of you the long process of receiving a Ph.D., and for those who are simply jumping into the work force, the hard part is yet to come. Now is the time to see how much you truly learned in college. How close you were paying attention to those things that you never saw as important.
Time to leave a place the many deny to be their home until they leave. Just remember wherever you go–be it Chicago, Guam, New York, or Breaux Bridge–that you are and will forever be a part of one of the greatest and largest HBCU families in the United States, the Jaguar Nation and we are proud of you.