As We Go On, We Remember

Today, 2010 College graduates received an e-mail from the Dean's Advisory Board, requesting photo submissions for a CAS Graduation slide show. All of the graduates are sure to get teary-eyed looking at pictures of their 1500 best friends in the world having four years of zany times. The DAB asks that the photos are "tasteful" and "[limited] to those of just College students since it will be shown only to parents of students graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences."

The guidelines make a lot of sense. First of all, after four long years spent snapping candids of our friends taking midterms, studying in Van Pelt, and listening to educational lectures with open ears and minds, we're all swimming in "tasteful" photos.

Secondly, our families are definitely not trying to look at pictures of kids they don't know. We can just hear Grammy shouting, "Who in tarnation is that kid? I've never seen him before in my life!" Then Uncle Pete will have to calm her down by explaining that the student was probably in Wharton or Engineering or even Nursing. It won't make her feel better. Not at all.

So get your tasteful, liberal arts student-filled photos together and send them to Graduation2010@penndab.org. Not just because you could win a $25 gift certificate to a local restaurant, but because it takes a lot of time to play Vitamin C's "Friends Forever," Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)," Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" and R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly"