I guess my Google Buzz reported that I’ve updated my Flickr stream. Spark took some pictures (and video -_- ) of graduation… and I had some of my own pictures from the Singularities closing reception.
Graduation was … kind of amazing, in its way. ::lol:: There was a lot of waiting around, but it was held indoors in the Shrine Auditorium which was almost TOO well air-conditioned. (I found it vastly amusing that they refer to the entrance corridors to the auditorium as “tunnels”. XP )
Jeffrey Katzenberg was our “keynote” speaker. I’ve seen better (since it’s the age of YouTube and charismatic speakers are just clicks away you know)… he used a pretty standard formula, as commencement speeches go. But he injected the right amount of humor and personal anecdota, so I’m hardly disappointed. I’ll try to remember to Google for a transcript in a few days and link to it if I find one.
And then people were walking! It was nice, cause we went by department and each one had a faculty speaker come up first and give a little spiel about how their department contributed to the field, just in case parents in attendance still weren’t sure. :X After all the departments got their students through, the commencement party exited the stage to the Indiana Jones theme. :D
Then there was a mass exodus back to the new SCA building, where they had “refreshments” (damn those sandwiches were tasty) laid out in one of the sound stages. I let my parents follow the swarm while I met with the rest of my year-mates on one of the upper story balconies for some final day-of photos together.
Anyway! It was exhausting and I’d never want to do it again (and won’t have to, obviously)… but I had fun. :x
