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May 20, 2006
I graduated!
I am officially graduated, and here are the pictures to prove it. Graduation activities spanned about two weeks, including the cluster dinner below. My folks were in town from Indiana for four days, their first visit to NYC. They learned all about such New York oddities as car services, trains that don't go where they're supposed to, the impertive of making dinner reservations, and how to pronounce "Houston Street."
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Kerry and I, surrounded by Jenn, Sara, Fayez, Nightstick, and Martin.
We played Jeopardy at the final dinner, including a category called "Dot Not Feather", whose clues included, "The correct spelling of the last names of any three Indians in our cluster."
It took three tries (all because of KG), but we finally got this picture to come out right.
The business school holds a separate graduation ceremony here at Madison Square Garden, where they call our names and have a speaker. Unlike last year's speaker, who ended up in Business Week for her controversial comments, this year's speaker just played a video that included such typical graduation things as a blow-up sex doll. We went from here to dinner at Eleven Madison Park. The necktie I'm wearing is the same tie I wore to my high school graduation.
The main university graduation is held outside, stretching from one end of campus to the other. It's pretty boring but was mentioned in the Wall St. Journal the next day because the school gave an honor to a Cuban dissident who couldn't be there because Fidel refused his exit visa application. As for us, we had dad, mom, and Nathan there. (Kyle couldn't make it.)
Posted by adrianjo at May 20, 2006 06:10 PM