transition

It's a sad time on campus. Graduation is tomorrow, so all the parents and families are arriving, going through the motions of parties and engagements, ferrying and being ferried about, packing, moving, staying in cramped hotels, eating bad food, etc.

The funny thing is, there's little difference between these family units and the ones that arrive in the fall to drop off the first-years. They're all a bit more seasoned now, I guess. The students are a little wiser, a lot more tired out from late nights of cramming and partying.

I feel most sorry for the parents. For them the transition is just a matter of degrees. If they thought they were losing their kids to college on Orientation day, now they're losing them even more, to the stirrings of adulthood.