Graduation
Well it's finally official - I've graduated. Ceremony was pretty good. 2 1/2 hours, roughly 600-700 students walked (mostly undergrad, some grad.). The speaker was Shonda Schilling, and she sucked as I expected. The speeches overall were just ok, but they were brief compared to our high school speakers.
I graduated Summa Cum Laude (there were only about 25 of us), so we each got recognized and presented to the President. Each name was read off and I got to stand with the other Summa's. So that was cool. Then again during the walk, anyone who made latin honors had their rank read off after their name.
Weather-wise, we totally lucked out. It was fairly warm and the sun kept coming and going. We were under a huge tent, and my god were there a lot of people. I'm just so glad it didn't rain. That was definitely a concern for the weekend.
I got to wear some fun stuff. Gold tassel for Latin honors, red-white-gold ropes for Alpha-Lambda-Delta (honor society), and a cheap plastic little necklace that said "Congrats Grad" - one of the psych professors handed it out to the psych grads, along with mini bottles of bubbles. We were supposed to blow them after moving our tassels, but no one did it! Oh well. Oh the hoods were cool though.
Here's me looking kinda silly.
Still working in Cambridge, and I'm already two weeks into the summer semester. I have a lot of work to do within the next few weeks! Ugh, 30-page paper, and 2 other assignments. I'm looking forward to July and just working for a couple months.
Feels like yesterday that I graduated from HS. I guess soon I'll be saying that about college. Life sure is starting to fly by. I guess it's true what our parents always say, "When you get the older, the years just speed by." I'm certainly not old, but I can still remember being 7, 8, 9, and remembering the feeling of how slow the summer was going by, how slowly the school days passed. Hell, even in high school - those 4 years CRAWLED. Even looking back now, I can still feel the slowness. But when I look back on college, those years flew by. It's as if a year isn't a year anymore. Everytime I look it's another month, another year.
But as each year goes by, more things are in store for me that I've been looking forward to for so long. Aside from the remaining years of my education, marriage is on the horizon, and getting ever closer. It still seems an eternity away, but compared to 4 years ago, it's not so bad. 3 more years most likely. Once all our schooling is done. Another thing I've been looking forward to lately is having kids. I'm certainly not in a rush - I have priorities that need to be attended to first. But knowing that 10 years from now I will have kids is such an awesome feeling, and I can't wait to experience it.
Well, I think that's enough. My night is over and I've done nothing productive. Another long day resumes tomorrow.
I graduated Summa Cum Laude (there were only about 25 of us), so we each got recognized and presented to the President. Each name was read off and I got to stand with the other Summa's. So that was cool. Then again during the walk, anyone who made latin honors had their rank read off after their name.
Weather-wise, we totally lucked out. It was fairly warm and the sun kept coming and going. We were under a huge tent, and my god were there a lot of people. I'm just so glad it didn't rain. That was definitely a concern for the weekend.
I got to wear some fun stuff. Gold tassel for Latin honors, red-white-gold ropes for Alpha-Lambda-Delta (honor society), and a cheap plastic little necklace that said "Congrats Grad" - one of the psych professors handed it out to the psych grads, along with mini bottles of bubbles. We were supposed to blow them after moving our tassels, but no one did it! Oh well. Oh the hoods were cool though.
Here's me looking kinda silly.
Still working in Cambridge, and I'm already two weeks into the summer semester. I have a lot of work to do within the next few weeks! Ugh, 30-page paper, and 2 other assignments. I'm looking forward to July and just working for a couple months.
Feels like yesterday that I graduated from HS. I guess soon I'll be saying that about college. Life sure is starting to fly by. I guess it's true what our parents always say, "When you get the older, the years just speed by." I'm certainly not old, but I can still remember being 7, 8, 9, and remembering the feeling of how slow the summer was going by, how slowly the school days passed. Hell, even in high school - those 4 years CRAWLED. Even looking back now, I can still feel the slowness. But when I look back on college, those years flew by. It's as if a year isn't a year anymore. Everytime I look it's another month, another year.
But as each year goes by, more things are in store for me that I've been looking forward to for so long. Aside from the remaining years of my education, marriage is on the horizon, and getting ever closer. It still seems an eternity away, but compared to 4 years ago, it's not so bad. 3 more years most likely. Once all our schooling is done. Another thing I've been looking forward to lately is having kids. I'm certainly not in a rush - I have priorities that need to be attended to first. But knowing that 10 years from now I will have kids is such an awesome feeling, and I can't wait to experience it.
Well, I think that's enough. My night is over and I've done nothing productive. Another long day resumes tomorrow.