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35. Once AUIer, Always AUIer

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I have been scrolling through my social media the past two days and all that I have been seeing was the pictures of Al Akhawayn University's 22nd commencement ceremony. My friends, their friends, their families, their loved ones ... It reminded me of myself one year ago, in the exact same place.   Photo/ Ouejdane Sabbah After four long years of hard labor, bitter coffees, illimited hot salty tears, tight deadlines, tough individual and group projects, tens of papers and thousands of words, a magical moment happened.  The moment I was holding the Tunisian red beautiful flag walking through the gymnasium where the ceremony was held, where hundreds of proud parents were impatiently waiting to hear their children's names graduating and where the AUI experience was about to end for some of us.   I could remember holding my tears in public just to avoid the panda eyes because of the mascara.  I could see myself in 2014, as a freshman, discovering and explori