Actually, I consider this picture to be a summary of my life at AUC. The graduation day had contradicting feelings for me. It was the day I successfully graduated from AUC, but at the same time, it is the day I was leaving AUC, my second home. Spending five years at AUC had really changed my life, my way of thinking and my future.
 
I was lucky to meet this beautiful girl whom you see with me in the picture, and that is another reason why memories at AUC's downtown campus are really valuable for me. We are now husband and wife, living and remembering each and every day we spent at AUC –– the learning, laughter and, of course, our friends and memories that we will never forget. My wife, Silvana Zakhary, a graduate of mass communication, Fall 2003, also has valuable memories at AUC, which are still ongoing because she chose to work at the university in the political science department as program assistant for the Model Arab League and Model United Nations. This has also given us a chance to meet again in the Greek Campus, relive all our cherished memories, meet our highly respected professors and share our class memories together with them.
 
Thank you for letting us alumni remember those good days and have the chance to share them with you before the great move to the new campus in New Cairo. I am very confident that students and alumni of AUC's downtown campus will never forget this place that changed our lives.