omg it didn't rain! yay!
YAY!!! it didn't rain and it actually turned out to be beautiful weather! ^___^ thank you so much for all the no-rain thoughts. obviously they worked. :D
okay, so Bryn Mawr is weird (as usual) but oh-so-cool in its weirdness (also as usual) and we have a two-day graduation ceremony. today was the first part: the speakers and then the garden party. the speakers were awesome. :D there were speakers to represent each of the degree groups (Ph.D., Masters, and B.A.). our senior class presidents spoke for the undergrads and they were the best of the student speakers. one of them, Elissa, made her speech as a response to the Harvard president's sexist comments from last fall, which was awesome, because, of course, we are a bunch of amazing women about to graduate. she also mentioned doing what you want to do, whatever that may be, rather than just doing what you feel like you should do. and when she said that, my classmate Yvette nudged me because she knows half my parents aren't pleased with what i want to do. but i am SO going to do it anyway. i don't know, today was just really cool and i feel ready to take on the world. okay, maybe not, but i feel so ... happy to be graduating from such an amazing college with an amazing group of women, even if some of my friends here hurt me.
then the main speaker was Anne Garrels, who is a foreign correspondent for NPR. she's done a lot of reporting from Iraq in the past two years, and before that she was in Chechnya and the USSR and lots of other places. her speech was pretty cool, too. we were kind of wondering about her, though, because in the bio they sent us when they announced her as the graduation speaker, it said she applied to Bryn Mawr and was rejected. so we were kind of like, "so... won't she hate us?" but she was really cool about it. she told us the details of her rejection (which involved a forged check...) and that she wasn't ready for Bryn Mawr at that time. and she also said that she doesn't do graduation speeches, but she couldn't refuse Bryn Mawr and she's ready to be part of the Bryn Mawr family now. it sounds all mushy, but it was cool. really. :)
okay, so after the speeches was garden party! and no rain! YAY!!! :D i found two of my profs and introduced them to my family and they told my family what a brilliant student i am. ^_^ and i was SO happy when Professor Allen said that i would make a great librarian in front of my dad. so there. ^_^
you know, i wasn't really that excited about graduation until we actually started walking to the convocation today, in all our sexy black robes and silly caps. ^_^ i'm graduating tomorrow! YAY!!!
okay, so Bryn Mawr is weird (as usual) but oh-so-cool in its weirdness (also as usual) and we have a two-day graduation ceremony. today was the first part: the speakers and then the garden party. the speakers were awesome. :D there were speakers to represent each of the degree groups (Ph.D., Masters, and B.A.). our senior class presidents spoke for the undergrads and they were the best of the student speakers. one of them, Elissa, made her speech as a response to the Harvard president's sexist comments from last fall, which was awesome, because, of course, we are a bunch of amazing women about to graduate. she also mentioned doing what you want to do, whatever that may be, rather than just doing what you feel like you should do. and when she said that, my classmate Yvette nudged me because she knows half my parents aren't pleased with what i want to do. but i am SO going to do it anyway. i don't know, today was just really cool and i feel ready to take on the world. okay, maybe not, but i feel so ... happy to be graduating from such an amazing college with an amazing group of women, even if some of my friends here hurt me.
then the main speaker was Anne Garrels, who is a foreign correspondent for NPR. she's done a lot of reporting from Iraq in the past two years, and before that she was in Chechnya and the USSR and lots of other places. her speech was pretty cool, too. we were kind of wondering about her, though, because in the bio they sent us when they announced her as the graduation speaker, it said she applied to Bryn Mawr and was rejected. so we were kind of like, "so... won't she hate us?" but she was really cool about it. she told us the details of her rejection (which involved a forged check...) and that she wasn't ready for Bryn Mawr at that time. and she also said that she doesn't do graduation speeches, but she couldn't refuse Bryn Mawr and she's ready to be part of the Bryn Mawr family now. it sounds all mushy, but it was cool. really. :)
okay, so after the speeches was garden party! and no rain! YAY!!! :D i found two of my profs and introduced them to my family and they told my family what a brilliant student i am. ^_^ and i was SO happy when Professor Allen said that i would make a great librarian in front of my dad. so there. ^_^
you know, i wasn't really that excited about graduation until we actually started walking to the convocation today, in all our sexy black robes and silly caps. ^_^ i'm graduating tomorrow! YAY!!!