Sarah Stahowick would have expressed more assertiveness when going after internships.
Stacey Nimke would have stuck to her schedule so her four-year undergraduate college career didn't turn into a five-year run.
"I had to do the victory lap," Nimke joked.
Oh what they would have done if they only knew then what they know now.
On Saturday, Connolly, Stahowick and Nimke joined nearly 1,300 classmates in musing over their undergraduate days, walking across the stage in Hilton Coliseum to receive their diplomas and saying goodbye to ISU.
In his commencement address, University of Wisconsin at Madison Professor Emeritus Robert Byron Bird told the students they now have three responsibilities as graduates: to give back to society through what they have learned, be healthy and develop breadth - a trait, he said, most attainable through reading.
"By doing this, you will enlarge your vocabulary, you will learn new subjects, you may develop new interests, you may learn new skills, and you, yourself will become more interesting," he said.
About 2,500 undergraduate students were expected to receive their diplomas following this semester.
Another 97 students in ISU's veterinary medicine program were awarded degrees in a separate ceremony held Saturday afternoon at Stephens Auditorium.
ISU held its graduate commencement ceremony Friday night at Stephens Auditorium where 92 Ph.D. candidates and 320 master's students received their degrees.
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