Advice for the class of 2007

“All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder; is the ladder.”

- Anonymous

Before I begin to drop science on the class of 2007, I just have one question that has been on my mind all evening: Why is it that when my parents sent me off to school to become a fine upstanding young man, I had to put on a “gown” before the principle would give me my diploma?