The term "academic rigor" is often thought to mean the difficulty of a class. The harder a class is, the more rigorous it is. On survey day, one of the questions in the survey is "Is the course rigorous?" "Is the course rigorous?" does not mean "Is the class hard?"
It has been a long road, but those who have reached the end of their college education are looking back and realizing that it seems to be just yesterday that they first arrived on campus for freshman year. Though this is the end of a "long haul," seniors will soon realize that it's just the beginning of an even longer one.
You receive a typical phone call from home one afternoon. Among the chatting of how hard this college semester is going be, and how your roommates are nothing like the ones you had in the past, mom says, "In order to fully experience the whole college way of life, your father and I have decided that we are no longer going to support your financial expenses while you are at CCC.