Not the end, a new beginning

Graduation is the successful completion of a course of study at a university, college, or school, for which you receive a degree or diploma. Additionally graduation is simply the closing of one chapter of our lives and the beginning of another.

Briana Raid, a 17-year-old teen who recently graduated high school said, You are closing one chapter and going to another. Graduating signifies that you have finished school and you're going to embark on a new journey. You are leaving behind something that you once knew to go and experience something new.

According to Dr. Robert M. Myers we often treat commencement as the end of an academic journey, that is not what the word commencement actually means. The word commencement is actually derived from a 13th century French word meaning beginning or start. You see commencement isn’t the celebration of an ending it’s the celebration of a new beginning.

As students, when you commence, you actually begin a new chapter in your life. The focus is on the future not on the past.