Classes finished last Friday.  Finals this week including my favorite part, midnight munch, which is tomorrow evening.  (I was never really a fan of any tests here.)

To the seniors, it's finals, then a week off to think about it, then Commencement weekend.  It's that week before Commencement, "dead week" many call it, that it finally begins to sink in. They are done as students at Wabash.  Next fall, it won't be the ritual of Back to Wabash.  It will be just another week at work (where did summer vacation go?), starting grad school, law school, med school, Teach for America, or one of a hundred new and different challenges.

Oh, the Class of 2009 will return often to campus...at least I certainly hope so.  But their place here will be taken by another class of bright and talented men. The 2009 class will find themselves on the other side of the student-alumnus line in the sand.  It's another one of those one-way doors you can't wait to get to but you pause as you go through.

It's not bad but it is different. 

All of us wish them nothing but the very best.  Now - go out there and change the world!