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I GRADUATED COLLEGE TODAY!
U.C. Santa Cruz, Class of 2010
Bachelor of Arts in Politics
Highest Honors in the Major
Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies
Highest Honors in the Major
Today has been beautiful, bittersweet, surprising, and altogether wonderful. Today felt like it used to in sophomore year, when everybody was just glad to be around each other, enjoying everyone's success, happiness exuding from their very bodies. My parents cried when they saw me after the ceremony, my grandmother cried when we found out I got highest honors in both my majors, I cried realizing I'll never see so many of my friends together in one place again. Maybe the best part was when I was just sitting on the bleachers while some commencement speakers droned on, cracking jokes and fanning myself in a sea of friends. That's the feeling I want to remember more than anything else: being jammed together with a dear friend on all sides, with everybody I love right where I always wanted them, safe and close to me.
And now I'm going out into the night.