To all the graduates celebrating, the campus you see now, the campus you hold dear in your memory shall change. For better (or worst) the campus changes to fit the needs of the new students and faculty. They create new dorms, purchase new digital materials for libraries, upgrade lab equipment, and so forth. Every now and again the alums or industry partners will donate large sums to purchase something rather sexy for the institution. By sexy I mean—not something necessarily needed by either students or faculty, but future students will inevitably be attracted to. Take example any outside artifact (aka statue or fountain that adds to the scenic ambiance to campus).

If you plan to do something to celebrate, we would recommend that you plan ahead. The Sunday we came to town students were moving out, a citywide marathon happened in the morning, church bells ringing, and the first warm wave came about. We didn’t plan ahead and were starving as we waiting in a never-ending brunch line.