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Graduating with a BA in English from Radford next Saturday. Woohoo!!!

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Congratulations!

Congratulations! I was a December graduate also (3.5 years rather than the standard 4).

Whilst I missed the pomp and circumstance of marching with my classmates, having a 5-month head start on the job market was more than worth it.

Mmm more like 4.5 years for me. But o well.

Looks like I better go remove a layer of dust from your room before you come home.



You'll get your congrats in person, on Doobry.


See you sometime on Poets!

well done.

You should be very proud of your accomplishment, Amy!

Congratulations on a job well done.




Schools out! Class dismissed.

I was watching online but I didn't see you.

Lady Scott wrote a note to me this morning describing the "arrangement" of Amy's stuff in the back of the car(s) for the trip home. Let's just say that they're a *tad* busy at the moment with that particular puzzle.

The weather will turn nasty again for the trip home, so they've decided to linger a while at the hotel for safety reasons, Clive. You should hear from Amy shortly.

The ceremony was incredibly long, drawn out, slow, and did I mention *long*?

But I'm now the proud mother of a college graduate!

And the best part of it all (outside of seeing Amy walk across the stage to recieve her diploma*) was that true to Radford tradition, the ceremonies began and ended with a bagpipe band processional.




*they were fake diplomas, the real ones will arrive in the mail in a few months.

I agree - all those speeches - Yeeesh!

I am now the proud finacé of a college graduate.

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The short speeches were ok.

Even the guest speaker started out ok.

Since I was a student there at approximately the same time she was (she started at Radford the year after I did), it was a sort of trip down memory lane for me, and Shorty kept looking over at me with this quizzical expression on her face as if to say "She's kidding, isn't she?!", and I'd confirm that the speaker was indeed telling the truth.

...However, after the first 15-20 minutes, it became more of a question of whether she'd *ever* shut up so they could get on with the handing out of diplomas?

Even the name reading and handing out of diplomas went on for-ev-er, as each graduate paused and posed for the photographer while accepting their diploma and shaking hands with the University President.

Despite the weather related problems, I'm glad she graduated in December after all, because from what I understand, the May graduation has even more speeches, and of course the significantly longer list of graduates in May means a significantly longer ceremony. So I guess we actually got off easy, by comparison.

The bagpipe band was super cool, though.

Awww, I'm sorry you missed me. They were doing it by college (college of heath and human services, college of arts and sciences, etc). My college, the college of arts and sciences, went last (we have the biggest group) and I was right in the middle of that group. There was no rhyme or reason to it; we just got in line in the order we got there.

Speeches = some of the worst I've heard. And I've been at most of the May graduations since I began at Radford (I was part of commencement band). O well.

I saw the college of arts and sciences, I must have blinked and missed you.

The no-order thing was crazy. The least they could have done was seat you in alphabetical order by faculty.

My high school sorts graduates by height...

Not that *that* makes any sense.

Congragulations Amy!!

They what?

I can understand ordering by height for a class photo - but why the graduation order?

Perhaps so that the graduates filing into the auditorium will appear more visually appealing as a processional group? Another reason might be to prevent a short student from being lost in a forest of taller grads?

Congrats, Amy!
a bit late - but better late than never.

I'm even later! Congratulations, Amy! I think that covers it ...

My high school also arranged us by height for graduation ... all 500 at us for the morning session! My friends and I all stood together either on tip-toe or hunched down so we'd all sit together!