"It's sad to think about leaving it all behind, but I think the true test of my Uni education will come when I leave it," writes Lauren Piester, who graduated Saturday night with her 56 classmates. "How well am I prepared for college? For life after college? I can't say yet. But I know the transition will be made so much worse if all I can do is pine for high school."

"When I first came to Uni, I'll admit that I had some difficulties integrating myself into the larger community," writes Gordon Ruan, who during the past five years has learned to become a more confident and open person. "Looking back to my subbie year, I still can’t imagine how much I’ve changed."

"Maybe I'm too unwilling to compromise, maybe I'm too different," writes Elaine Gu. "I've yet to find that one friendship circle for me. But I've realized that's OK. Even though I don't have one best friend, I have a diverse group of people I hang out with. And most importantly, I'm happy with the way things are."

Lor Sligar didn't anticipate and certainly doesn't appreciate the giant medical curveball that fate threw her way this past weekend, but it's taught her something important that she needed to know before she could graduate. "This is what fate has decided to do," she writes, "and there's nothing I can do except sit back and hold on tight."

"I am choosing to go to a college in another state, where I have no previous connections," writes Deborah Ladd. "It is beginning to dawn on me that I am putting myself completely out of any comfort zone I have ever known, and it's a little scary. I am starting to long for the good old days … but no, not my ones at Uni."

With only a few days to go before graduation, the Gargoyle's senior editors contribute their final thoughts about their Uni experiences. Lizzy Warner got the ball rolling a few weeks ago with her senior column. Up today: Isaac Chambers. "It is with great sadness that my time as a student here is over," he writes. "But it is with enthusiasm that, with my class, I become an alumnus of Uni."

When Lizzy Warner was a freshman everything she did was important because, of course, everyone sincerely cared about every little thing she did. Now as a senior with less than three weeks to go before graduation, Lizzy reflects on how Uni disabused her of that notion and helped her become the person she is today.

With the school year winding down, Elaine Gu finds it hard to believe that she and her classmates are about to become seniors. "Honestly, I really don’t feel that different from how I felt when I first came to Uni," she writes. "However, once I took a step back and reflected upon who I was and who we were as a class subfreshman and freshman year, I realized that my class and I have both undergone some significant transformations."