5 years ago...
5 years ago, on this very day, my bestest and closest friends got together to celebrate our 5 year journey known as undergrad where we were guinea pigs with so much power that we managed to remove a course from curriculum and had courses created JUST for us. 5 years of school, then work, then back to school. 5 years of late nights, road trips, and fun. Who would have thought it would be such a life changing experience.
On our 5 year anniversary, I decided to go through our humongous yearbook. Seeing pictures that I'm sure if remembered, people would kill me for putting them in the yearbook. hahaha. Reading messages to each other and to ourselves. For the first time, I'm reading everyone's messages. I'm sure I've read many of them before, but it feels like I'm reading them for the first time. And the final page of my yearbook, where I got everyone at convocation to sign my yearbook. Now, if only I could figure out who each one belongs to.
And of course, how can I forget the valedictorian speech that day, when my friend Chris Porter announced to everyone in the auditorium that it was my birthday. It couldn't have been a bigger birthday party. I sometimes watch the video of our convocation and still can't believe he did that.
It's been 5 years and I have yet to go into the "real world". Just like back then, the idea of going into the "real world" is still scary and frightening. Somehow (despite what I wrote in my yearbook blurb), I managed to avoid the real world for another 5 years. Good thing? Bad thing? Who knows. This academic world isn't much easier.
So, to celebrate this day, I will re-post my gift to the SoftEng Class of 2006:
*poke* *runs away*
On our 5 year anniversary, I decided to go through our humongous yearbook. Seeing pictures that I'm sure if remembered, people would kill me for putting them in the yearbook. hahaha. Reading messages to each other and to ourselves. For the first time, I'm reading everyone's messages. I'm sure I've read many of them before, but it feels like I'm reading them for the first time. And the final page of my yearbook, where I got everyone at convocation to sign my yearbook. Now, if only I could figure out who each one belongs to.
And of course, how can I forget the valedictorian speech that day, when my friend Chris Porter announced to everyone in the auditorium that it was my birthday. It couldn't have been a bigger birthday party. I sometimes watch the video of our convocation and still can't believe he did that.
It's been 5 years and I have yet to go into the "real world". Just like back then, the idea of going into the "real world" is still scary and frightening. Somehow (despite what I wrote in my yearbook blurb), I managed to avoid the real world for another 5 years. Good thing? Bad thing? Who knows. This academic world isn't much easier.
So, to celebrate this day, I will re-post my gift to the SoftEng Class of 2006:
*poke* *runs away*