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The science library is my new favorite place to do work (and to avoid work by updating LJ)! Not only are there beautiful (albeit tippy) G5 iMacs, but there's a skylight! I can write my paper and get vitamin D all at the same time!
So this weekend was Rae's graduation from MIT. Now, I say weekend, but really the ceremony was on Friday, which I think is the stupidest thing ever. Who has graduation on a weekday!? I just can't get over it! The only thing more ridiculous than that is having graduation on Thursday, which is when Harvard's was. Weirdos.
All in all, it was a good weekend. Saw the Boston Pops and The Light in the Piazza. The ceremony itself wasn't bad, but SLU definitely had it beat, in my opinion. I guess it's hard when there are so many students that the only way to see up to they stage is by watching the big jumbo-tron monitors. It took them more than an hour to give out all the degrees, so it was a long day. Luckily, packing up Rae's stuff was less painful than I anticipated, though it just barely fit in the car.
Today was my on-camera interview for the graduate school video. They told us to wear business casual because "we want to give the impression of a graduate student/professional, rather than an undergraduate", which I found laughable, since I dressed pretty well as an undergrad but have devolved into an unkempt scumbag since coming to grad school. The interview itself was fine. My friend Jared had his right before mine and gave me the low-down. They just asked a bunch of questions about why I liked Binghamton and made me repeat the line "what's great about graduate education at Binghamton?" about a billion times so they could try out different camera work. My photographer BFF Jonathan was there taking pictures too (instead of smiling, he told me to "look engaged" whatever that means). When it was all done, the crew fed my ego by telling me what a good job I did and how I should have a career in television. So I'm letting you all be the first to know that I'm quitting grad school to live the high life of a grad student spokesperson. You are all invited to be in my entourage.
So this weekend was Rae's graduation from MIT. Now, I say weekend, but really the ceremony was on Friday, which I think is the stupidest thing ever. Who has graduation on a weekday!? I just can't get over it! The only thing more ridiculous than that is having graduation on Thursday, which is when Harvard's was. Weirdos.
All in all, it was a good weekend. Saw the Boston Pops and The Light in the Piazza. The ceremony itself wasn't bad, but SLU definitely had it beat, in my opinion. I guess it's hard when there are so many students that the only way to see up to they stage is by watching the big jumbo-tron monitors. It took them more than an hour to give out all the degrees, so it was a long day. Luckily, packing up Rae's stuff was less painful than I anticipated, though it just barely fit in the car.
Today was my on-camera interview for the graduate school video. They told us to wear business casual because "we want to give the impression of a graduate student/professional, rather than an undergraduate", which I found laughable, since I dressed pretty well as an undergrad but have devolved into an unkempt scumbag since coming to grad school. The interview itself was fine. My friend Jared had his right before mine and gave me the low-down. They just asked a bunch of questions about why I liked Binghamton and made me repeat the line "what's great about graduate education at Binghamton?" about a billion times so they could try out different camera work. My photographer BFF Jonathan was there taking pictures too (instead of smiling, he told me to "look engaged" whatever that means). When it was all done, the crew fed my ego by telling me what a good job I did and how I should have a career in television. So I'm letting you all be the first to know that I'm quitting grad school to live the high life of a grad student spokesperson. You are all invited to be in my entourage.