The thing about graduations — everyone thinks the learning part is over. You toss the cap, hug your mom, pose in your gown, dine at Biaggi’s, Epiphany or Lucca, and boom — you’re done.

Here in College Town, or as some like to call it — the UniverCity — it’s graduation time again, today at Illinois Wesleyan, next weekend at Illinois State, in a fortnight at Heartland. At all such ...