One week and three days from now, I will be walking across a platform to receive my college diploma. I have waited for this day for a while. Now, it is here. But now that it is here, I realize that it is not the end to learning as I thought. No, it is merely the beginning.

After college comes graduate school, work, career, marriage, children, and so on. After college is when true learning takes place for the greatest knowledge ever gained was not learned in a classroom but was acquired through experience.

So here I am closing another chapter of my life by opening a new chapter—a chapter that holds far greater burdens and blessings. So farewell to college life and here’s to a great rest of life!