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(off-screen): How does it feel to graduate? It feels like a new beginning. And a lot of hard work, all
put into one day. Feels exciting! Feels pretty cool. Nervous, apprehensive. Yeah, I thought
I'd be pretty scared. (off-screen): Are you scared today? Nah. Little bit. It's a little scary, I feel
like this is the first time I've ever really been in a position where there is no more
safety net. Cause, when I left high school, you know there was still college to go, but
now there's no more college, so... Just how excited I am and how wonderful its been to
work with a lot of great people, while I've been in this program. I look forward to hopefully
working with them in the future. I'm really excited to finally graduate. I was suppose
to graduate in May, but I guess December graduation is kind of fun. With the snow and everything
else and it's different. So, yeah. I'm excited for this day.
Well, actually... I already have a full time job over at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, so.. Yeah, hopefully
we'll just keep going down that route.
I see it on TV, in like TV shows. We don't have stuff like this in France, at all.
So it's kind of crazy. And this is kind of funny, but... It's like a... I don't know.
I feel like I'm in a different planet right now.
No, I think every thing's going
really good so far and I'm super excited to walk. (laughs)
(graduation music playing)
Your ultimate success in life will be determined by not what you know today, but what you're
able to learn tomorrow. And how you're going to react to it. This will be the lasting visible
legacy of the liberal arts underpinning that you've received.
No matter what your path is,
know that you're a unique, well rounded individual. Your liberal arts education has
given you this skill. From the diversity topics this institution strives to promote. The wide
range of courses you've had to take from foreign language to math to the fine arts. The liberal
arts education has ensured your success for the future.
But I would ask you to celebrate more,
to celebrate what is to come. And I certainly hope these are not the best years
of your life. Because I promise you what lies ahead can be exhilarating, as you shed the
safety of your university community. Distance yourselves from your parents, economic support.
And embrace the challenge embodied in your freedom and independence to create and define
your own future. I confer upon you the bachelor's degree for which you've been recommended with
all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities there onto appertaining. (music plays)
Benjamin Michael Cole
(applause)
Brent E. Edstrom
Robbeca J.M. Lemmons
(cheers)
Megan Elisabeth Jonasen
(applause)
(cheers/applause)
Sarah Leigh Groat (cheers)
Chancellor Wachter, on behalf of the graduate faculty, I am pleased
to present the candidates who have fulfilled all requirements prescribed by the university
for one of several master's degrees.
Nicole Elizabeth Vegar. (cheers/applause)
There is one very important step left.
So bachelor's degree candidates, raise your hand and move your tassels from the right
to the left.
Okay, it's official. (applause)
The UW-Superior graduating class of 2013.
(singing:) Superior, our alma mater, and to her we sing.
(applause)