On one hand, there is nothing so different between your senior year of high school, your freshman year of college. Nothing so special about graduating, if you're going to college, have always intended to go to college. The ceremony, really, is for those who have finished school, and will cross the gradient from student to employee, not student to student. For the rest, it's just another summer before just another year of school; nothing distinguishes this point from any other in life's continuum... read more