Graduation Archive

You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn’t really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you’ll forget those, too. You forget [...]

"Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been and look ahead to what would be. Other days, now days, days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves for growing up. " - The Wonder Years

For the In-College or College-Bound Maybe the time has gone, the faces, I recall. But things in this life change very slowly, if they ever change at all….The scary part being that we’ve all been hit with change lately, and it doesn’t seem to have come slowly at all. Do you remember the day you [...]

"So the only thing I could think of that unites us all, that we all have in common, is that we all start out in kindergarten thinking we can be anything we want to be. And by the time we get here, we've all lost that feeling. We've all started to believe whatever our friends or our parents have told us about what we can achieve in life and who we can be. And we've forgotten about the possibility we had when we were younger. That's the one thing we all have in common, so that's what the symbol on this mural means: possibility. I painted it because I thought we all could use a little daily reminder of the fact that if you believe in yourself, even when the odds seem stacked against you, anything is possible." - Dawson's Creek

"There are some things from our high school experiences that we will carry with us for the rest of our lives and some memories that we chose to forget. But when we look back at those experiences, we'll see our friends, the ones who got us through everything, and we'll realize how lucky we are to have them."

"I never thought those times would last forever, but now that they're gone, I'm pretty sure we grew up too fast." - The Ataris, "not a worry in the world"

"Goodbye yesterday, now it's over and done. Still I hope somewhere deep in your heart, yesterday will live on." - Journey

"Put it this way. If i had to do it again, I'd do it knowing that after you graduate no one ever gives a fuck what your GPA was." - the last kiss

"The best memories come from the best of times, which can only come from the best of friends."

"Well, let's just say that old habits die hard. And old friends die even harder." - Dawson's Creek