It also happens to be Thursday, and party hoots and hollers fill the quad below.
The undergraduate ceremony filled the central quad at the university's Burbank campus.
I remember students filling the quads of the University of Colorado, Boulder, with flags representing Holocaust victims, for instance, and protesting immigration legislation.
Extreme racing games don't always have the best reputation – and this stunt-filled quad bike racer won't go down as a classic – but it's a blast to play.
The grassy college quad was filled with folding chairs occupied by a full complement of students, faculty, and guests, facing a temporary stage normally used for commencement ceremonies.
When police searched outbuildings around the gamekeeper's cottage, they discovered a sack of pheasant feed on a quad bike filled with nine dead buzzards.
Thousands of students fill the academic quad.
When they grind the coffee, the delicious smell fills the space, and students from around the quad filter in with friends or homework or both.
"Before, we towed Jet Skis, quads, dirt bikes, big trailers filled with luggage and presents to go on vacation," he says.
He is riding a quad bike; I'm in a small trailer filled with hay being pulled along behind.
He signed my withdrawal slip, and I emerged from the engineering quad into the beautiful winter sunshine, my head filled with dreams of DNA and mitochondria and never, ever again having to do a Fourier transform.
