May is a red season of graduation. It is a time for the class of 2011 to say goodbye to their college life and step into the practical society. It's a time for them to throw away heavy school bags and pick up the light and portable office cases. It's also a time to move out of residence halls and deal with the housing problem in another state. It's definitely a time to switch concerns from grades to salaries. A fresh but strange life is waiting at the corner for them to look forward to, to adapt to, to discover and to create. However, please do not just leave silently when the graduation ceremony ends. There are many things you haven't done yet.
When the superstitious seal is like an invisible spell covering you for four years, when you walk close to it and have to detour outside of the circle, have you ever thought about that it has nothing to do with your grades? Then why not step onto it with your friends and take a photo to make it part of your Miami University memories?
It's not surprising when lovers decide to break up before or after graduation. They don't believe their love could go through time's test, they doubt long distance would drag their relationship even longer. But it is a great pity that you and your boyfriend or girlfriend have never kissed each other under the arch of Upham Hall. You should make it happen. No matter the legend is true or not, it's after all a happy blessing if both of you really want to be together forever.
When you have been focusing on your major and just study your courses in some certain buildings, why not take an adventure to other buildings you have never been heard of even it is lying in the map all the time. Do you know where the Miami Art Museum is? Could you find Flower Hall? How about visiting the Miami archives? I bet you'll find something so exciting and surprising.
When you drive your car or walk on your own feet to school everyday, when Miami metros pass by one followed by another, you may want to pick your best color from red, green, blue, orange, yellow and purple to have a relax trip around our campus and the community. Finally you may recognize that how the bus would save your time when you rushed in minutes once for your class.
You may also want to walk around the campus to find something you never knew before. Pick up The Miami Student (not the New York Times or USA Today that you preferred every day) to read news articles written by Miami students. Listen to WMSR, a student-run radio station on campus, to interact with the news anchors or DJs once, just for fun.
Before you get ready for the graduation, you just suddenly find there are many wonders you have missed during these four years.
2011 is a good time for those seniors who decided to hunt for a job. From the 2011 Job Outlook Spring Update's data we could find a bright outlook for the 2011 job market: there is a planned increase in hiring of 13.5 percent for this year's crop of new graduates. In this latest update, employers indicate they would like to hire 19.3 percent more graduates in 2010 to 2011 than they did in 2009 to 2010. For the class of 2011, college hiring is increasing in all regions. The increase projected by the Northeast is the largest and the Midwest and Western regions show the most improvements.
At this point, seniors hold strong confidence in their job searching and receiving offers. Obviously, to some degrees, the economic recession has slight effects on college students' employments. The society can't wait to imbue all kinds of trades with young adults' fresh motivation and all of the green hands are desperate to build their own base.
Best wishes to all of those seniors who will depart for next stop of their life. They end their education career in Miami; they will not only take Miami's degrees to their occupations, but they also take its beautiful memories along with them all the way to the end.
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