Here's me in my scholarly regalia, fancy robe and puffy hat, with the special people in my life who look far more normal (except for my professor who looks equally medieval):
Thank you to Danny and Jack, my parents, my grandma, Pete, Lori and my cousin Jack (Big Jack), and Bill and Melissa for sitting through what turned out to be a very long ceremony that included the name-reading and procession of every single graduating graduate and undergraduate in the College of Natural Resources. Especially 15-year-old cousin Jack. I can't imagine a more boring way for a teenager to spend a Saturday morning. Thanks for being there for me, everyone!
And to much of the same crew, along with several other lab-mates and friends, for coming to my final talk the evening before. I have no photos from that, sorry. Maybe I will post my talk as a slide show and you can flip through it yourself if you weren't able to be there and you want to know what I've been up to day in and day out and especially during the summers the past five years.
We had a grand picnic celebration in the backyard afterwards, and I failed to get a group shot of that as well, but at least Danny took a bunch of candids, so I will just toss them all together for posterity. Here are a bunch of pictures of us stuffing our faces with strawberry shortcake. That was almost certainly the highlight of Graduation Day for everyone.
Especially this guy. Somebody found out strawberries are the most delicious food on this good green earth and is pretty excited about summertime because it means even more strawberries.
2 comments:
Becky, Dan, and Jack, thanks for all the deposits in our memory banks this week-end. The occasion was what makes life worth-living.
Our love, Bill and Melissa
So, if I count from the first year that you went to pre-school in Columbia (3 years old), that makes 27 years of school for my darling daughter to achieve the highest degree. That's dedication! But now the question is, will you keep going to school? Will you follow in that multi-generational tradition of teaching (both of your grandfathers and both parents)....?
I enjoyed every minute of all the graduation hoopla, thesis presentation, eating, and celebrating. I'm sure I enjoyed your graduation way more than I would have enjoyed my own.
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