Graduation
May. 8th, 2003 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dwivianGraduation is at Southern Polytechnic State University on Saturday, 2pm, but arrive early if you want seats.
I'll be there at 1pm to get in the line and get all my stuff done.
I've been asked what I want for graduation. I was told I'd get a car, but that was ...er.... 18 years ago, and I've gotten a car cosigned and bought and a second one bought since then, plus a minivan, so....
What do I want? I want an MP3/CD player for my car. I want a suit (I've not had one in about five years or so, since I got larger and didn't see the need). I want a portable MP3 player (Samsung YEPP, specifically, which I've picked out already). I want some woodworking tools (router, small circular saw, hand sander, etc) and a kit from Home Depot has a few together so that's cool. I want two dogwoods and about 20 azeleas for the back yard.
What I REALLY think would be nice is a babysitter for a weekend, about $500, and time to take my wife away someplace nice. Biltmore House, maybe. Or a B&B that doesn't have seperate beds (for our honeymoon we got seperate twin beds -- and, no, you really can't fit two people in one twin bed, even when you try). Maybe Disney. Maybe.... Ireland again, over a really long weekend. Just fly in to Shannon, stay in Moher, then come home.
I don't know what I want, really. It's too unreal. What is graduation? I've never been here before... I've been in college as long as I was in school before that, and it's weird thinking about not being in classes for a while.
Am I really this old?
I'll be there at 1pm to get in the line and get all my stuff done.
I've been asked what I want for graduation. I was told I'd get a car, but that was ...er.... 18 years ago, and I've gotten a car cosigned and bought and a second one bought since then, plus a minivan, so....
What do I want? I want an MP3/CD player for my car. I want a suit (I've not had one in about five years or so, since I got larger and didn't see the need). I want a portable MP3 player (Samsung YEPP, specifically, which I've picked out already). I want some woodworking tools (router, small circular saw, hand sander, etc) and a kit from Home Depot has a few together so that's cool. I want two dogwoods and about 20 azeleas for the back yard.
What I REALLY think would be nice is a babysitter for a weekend, about $500, and time to take my wife away someplace nice. Biltmore House, maybe. Or a B&B that doesn't have seperate beds (for our honeymoon we got seperate twin beds -- and, no, you really can't fit two people in one twin bed, even when you try). Maybe Disney. Maybe.... Ireland again, over a really long weekend. Just fly in to Shannon, stay in Moher, then come home.
I don't know what I want, really. It's too unreal. What is graduation? I've never been here before... I've been in college as long as I was in school before that, and it's weird thinking about not being in classes for a while.
Am I really this old?
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Date: 2003-05-08 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-05-08 10:27 am (UTC)Are you graduating with a BS or MS degree?
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Date: 2003-05-08 11:48 am (UTC)(only one of those above means Batchelor of Science)
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Date: 2003-05-09 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-08 10:48 am (UTC)I remember that whole "omgid what am I going to do with out school" feeling.
Sorta unnerving...
But, you'll get used to it.
*claps.. well tries to*
Date: 2003-05-08 10:51 am (UTC)Congrats on graduating!!!! 4.0 gpa rocks.... lucky duck... man.. if i went back to school my gpa might be like 0.2.. maybe if i am lucky... oh.. not that isn't cause i am stupid or something... but i guess people actually think a fox isn't smart enough to be in the classes or something and would kick me out... but then i am enrolled so they have to humor me with a just failing grade...
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Date: 2003-05-09 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-12 05:52 pm (UTC)You and I were in English 101 together way back then, 18 years ago.
Do you remember that?
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Date: 2003-05-12 06:39 pm (UTC)** OUT OF MEMORY ERROR **
Oh, yes, I remember. Basement of Park hall, in on the left, prof gave me an A for style on a comparison/contrast paper, then an F for content, just because I compared and contrasted Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" with a Lemon Meringue Pie. Bastage.
Taught me an important lesson. It matters not what you know, but what you can parrot back to the prof.