I GRADUATED!!!!! YAYY!! Im so excited.
Im going to be posting about my day in a couple of separate posts since, it was SUCH a long day-and also my mom took most of the pics from the day so I have to wait to get pics from her.
First off, was the University wide ceremony-which I really only went to because I wanted to see David McCullough speak. I heart David McCullough!
It was at the University ceremony that I learned about all the conventions governing attire. Master's candidates, when they graduate, wear hoods-and since my degree is in the arts my hood is white. While we were waiting in line they told us further, that we had to wear our hoods over our left hand while walking into the ceremony. After the president confirms the degrees, we get to put them on then.
Then there are all of the Ph.D. hoods. They are so cool! Not to mention their robes-the Ph.D. robes are beautiful! It was cool watching all the faculty walking in with all of their differently colored robes and hoods. If I remember correctly, the hoods are colored as follows: white for arts and sciences, purple for law, blue for education, -and I cant remember what management/business are.
Then there was David McCullough. It was awesome getting to see him! And the cool thing was the A&S students got to sit in front, and the grad A&S students in the very front-so I was like in the third row! I had a great view of David and his speech. He gave a really good speech about the availability of information in the world, and the difference between mere information and learning, and education.
There was also a really good talk by I think it was the President of the school, about how blessed and fortunate we are, and our responsibility to use those blessings to give back. I thought it was great-and it was great to be in a ceremony that invoked God and prayer.
Here are some pics of David-enjoy. There will be more about my day later...and my individual school ceremony to come. :)
David walked right by me!
Speaking
About to get hooded
He's hooded! -Awarded an honorary Ph.D from BC 
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Congratulations Z!! I believed you would all along. There were times that you worried, but that is past you now. And You'll make such a great teacher, you have the type of mind for it, your passionate about the Italian culture and what one can learn from studying another culture in general. And since you'll keep learning, you'll keep adding to your lessons too, you'll keep improving every year - I personally think that's the most important quality of a good teacher. Anyway, (for lack of a less condescending term) - I am proud of you.
Love, -O
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