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A graduate returns to her chair after walking across the stage.

A lone student walks across a bridge as a heavy fog hangs in the sky.

Freshly graduated students walk out of commencement with heads held high.

Graduates stand as music plays and they are applauded by their friends and family.

The conductor leads the Christmas carols during the lighting ceremony.

Dmytro Solomianiuk (left) and Dana Krukovska, who are two of the four Ukrainian students who received full scholarships to the university, study intensely for finals at the Lyceum Cafe.

Captured from behind the backstage curtains and a line of graduates patiently waiting to cross the stage, a student crosses the stage and receives their diploma.

A Doctoral candidate watches themselves on screen as they receive their honors on stage at Winter Commencement.  In the foreground, one of their professors takes a photo of the moment on their cell phone.

A graduate moves their tassel from right to left during Illinois State University's Winter commencement ceremony.

A happy graduate gives his family the thumbs up after receiving his diploma.