nearly graduation
Jun. 6th, 2007 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aslantmy parents have been staying with kirk and me since last saturday. they are sleeping in our bed and we are sleeping on blow-up mattresses in the guest room. we leave the door open so the cats can come in and out. with the door open, i wake up every morning when my dad makes espresso on the stove, and then he and i check our email on our respective laptops in the kitchen.
so far, we have taken my parents to the peabody essex museum, salem beerworks, the new england aquarium, and legal seafoods. yesterday there was a social hour for my program, and afterwards we went to see harvard yard, where projection screens and thousands of chairs are being laid out for thursday's commencement. the coolest thing was that while we stood there, drew faust (my old dean from radcliffe) walked by and said hello to me, and even though she was probably already late for some ridiculously important meeting, she let me introduce her to kirk and my parents, and shook hands all around. so now my parents can say they not only visited harvard, they shook hands with the president of the university!
today is the convocation awards ceremony, where i will get my gold cord and my intellectual contribution/faculty tribute award, framed. and then we will go out for a dinner with liz and mike, and then go to the big ed school party. and tomorrow i graduate. it hardly feels real.
so far, we have taken my parents to the peabody essex museum, salem beerworks, the new england aquarium, and legal seafoods. yesterday there was a social hour for my program, and afterwards we went to see harvard yard, where projection screens and thousands of chairs are being laid out for thursday's commencement. the coolest thing was that while we stood there, drew faust (my old dean from radcliffe) walked by and said hello to me, and even though she was probably already late for some ridiculously important meeting, she let me introduce her to kirk and my parents, and shook hands all around. so now my parents can say they not only visited harvard, they shook hands with the president of the university!
today is the convocation awards ceremony, where i will get my gold cord and my intellectual contribution/faculty tribute award, framed. and then we will go out for a dinner with liz and mike, and then go to the big ed school party. and tomorrow i graduate. it hardly feels real.
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Date: 2007-06-06 08:48 pm (UTC)I *am* going to be in Oregon June 28th through July 5th. If you aren't coming to the reunion thingy, I'd still love to see you. My only firm plans are the night of the 30th and July 4th, since it's Lu-lu's birthday. Let me know!
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Date: 2007-06-07 12:59 am (UTC)jennie and i realized that the reunion is $70, which is way more than i had thought...i thought i remembered it was like $30. so i don't think we'll go...but we should all go out for drinks! i don't think i have any plans at all, at this point :)