only the commencement

beware of graduations! some say they are only about academic honors, but that is not true. i can see through all the regalia, and i know something else hides beneath the gowns and the hoods. graduations are ceremonies of rebirth and rebaptism.
i recently graduated from a u.s.american university. and alas: in the process I turned into someone else. inadvertently, perhaps unconsciously, I forsook my latin self and assumed an anglo-saxon identity. i left juan behind and thus became "master jVan".
i'm sure this is only the commencement.