Congratulations to Malia Obama on graduating high school!

[No Vested Interest]

A big day in any teen-agers life.
May she enjoy her "gap year", and then be ready to move on to "higher education"

We're proud of you, Malia!

[Jnclr89]

1. high school life to collage life is like the vortex of humanity

[GulfCoast66]

2. Good for her!

Nothing would improve this country more than finding a way to send every high school graduate to Europe for a gap year.

It changed my life, and politics in my 30's, and I was there for work for only 2 months.

[BlueMTexpat]

5. To Europe ... or to anywhere outside

the US where they have to learn to cope on their own in a different culture.

I too am a firm believer in gap year experiences.

[NuclearDem]

3. They grow up so fast.

Dad also had a couple fewer gray hairs back then too...

[smirkymonkey]

4. What a lovely family!

Barack's words about his little girl leaving the nest made me cry. So sweet!

[shenmue]

6. Where's she going to uni?

[Hortensis]

8. Harvard, Shenmue. From what I was reading,

Harvard is better accustomed than most to handling the issues of students with very famous parents. That gap year should help with that, of course. When the Clintons saw Chelsey off at her college it was a zoo.

What 8 years mean in a child's life. Wow. Well, go Malia!