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What does it mean to be an alumni?

 By Alli Geiger This year I had the privilege of being a Top 20 Candidate for Homecoming at the University of Louisville. During the interview process, I was asked “what does being an alumni mean to you?” This question took me by complete surprise, and while I did give a brief response, I find myself thinking more and more about what my answer is the closer I get to becoming one. When I graduate in the spring, several of the large pillars in my life are never going to be the same. I will no longer be an undergraduate at the University of Louisville, no longer a scholar at the McConnell Center, and no longer an active member in Kappa Delta - three things that distinctly make up who I am. When I am no longer a student, I will not get to spend every single day with my best friends. We will not be doing homework together and stay up until the small hours in the morning because our apartments are just a block away. I will not have favorite professors who have office hours I go to asking...