The happy graduates of Spring 2006!

Today was the first step towards graduation for Tarek Habib, Soad, Yasser, Christo, Amr Abou Bakr, and more, and we got to share this excitement with them. They didnt feel like they were graduating yet which is pretty normal but since I was taking way too many pictures, forcing them to smile every 2 secs, I'm sure they must have felt SOMETHING new was going on!! A year ago I was in their same shoes and I can still remember how excited I was! I kept running from person to person, taking as many pictures as I could so I can remember all these people that I knew in uni whom I might not know later on...you take pics of areas on campus where you used to hang out...areas which are significant to you for whatever reason...its fun yet sad at the same time because now these areas will soon be less important to you and may even be forgotten as the years roll by. This time around I felt less nostalgic about being a graduate...in the last group photos I felt sad that this lifestyle was over for me but this time around I didnt feel that anymore. I miss uni life terribly but now after being a graduate for a year I have come to appreciate the things that I now have just because I graduated, like the ability to go out whenever you like because you dont have any studying to do, or travelling whenever you like since you are paying for it yourself, etc. But to get to this point took some time and the first few months of being a graduate is hard and confusing but it is a new adventure and I wish all the graduates of Spring 2006 luck and I also want to advise them to try and enjoy this adventure into the unknown. It's exciting yet scary but you guys can do it!!