graduation

graduation went really well. i hardly remember that much from it, but that's normal for important events. although the whole thing wasn't as bad as my high school graduation. better and fewer speeches, more streamlined parade of graduates, and it only took about 2.5 hours. the length of time isn't too bad considering there were 2 colleges graduating together and mine had over 1300 graduates and the other had over 300. however there were a few interesting things of note.

• i was the first of my major to graduate from the new college that the department is now within.
  
• thus the chair of the department and a professor from the department both nearly killed themselves running from the main dias to get down to where our advisor and a couple random professors stand to shake our hands.
• it was kind of cool to be the very first in something like that. now i should see about getting it in the university archives
• the college that my department is a member of is the largest within the university with the largest graduating class
  
• the other college that graduated with us only had 300 graduates of them only 4 were male.
  
• i graduated about 30 years after my dad. we do everything about 30 years apart.
• i was born a couple months before his 30th birthday, i graduated from high school 30 years after he did, and now college as well

anyway, there are a bajillion boxes to unpack and store if my parents are ever to see the interior of their garage again