Alcala Yearbook 2006

Caps and gowns. Graduation announcements. New jobs, new cars, a new stage of life. The end of senior year brings many exciting things. However, it also brings the time when you have to say goodbye. Your last class with a favorite professor, your last Sunday night Mass at Founders Chapel , your last walk around campus as a student. Graduation means moving on and leaving the place you have called home for the past four years. Although you may leave a piece of yourself at USD, you also leave with many important lessons you have learned throughout the years. Seniors know the importance of hard work. They know how to job-hunt and execute the perfect interview. They have also honed their persuasive skills during four years of attempting to crash already filled classes. The seniors will be missed by all of us here at USD, but they will not be forgotten. They will return in years to come to see a growing university, a university they will be proud to call their alma mater.

"There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises.' Graduation is not the end; it's the

beginning." Orrin Hatch