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Last night was the commencement ceremony. It was all very Hogwarts: everyone dressed in gowns, "hoods" (more like capes), and goofy square hats with tassles, all color-coded according to degree, college, and subject, with faculty members wearing the appropriate colors from their own graduate institutions. Everything was ritualized, like when the graduate deans from each college would step up to the microphone and address the university president with something along the lines of "I present to you the candidates for the degrees of masters of science, masters of arts, doctor of philosophy, etc etc" to which the president would respond "I hereby grant to all who have fulfilled the prescribed requirements the degrees of etc etc". There were even some people carrying some sort of scepter-like objects; I never figured out what those were supposed to be. The featured speaker, Walter Robinson from the Boston Globe, was entertaining and interesting, though when he lamented the fact that people were shifting from reading the news on paper to reading the news online I didn't have much sympathy. Anyway, the evening was pretty much just three hours of waiting around to get my diploma. But, now I have my diploma. THE END
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congratulations!!.
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For some reason, commencement ceremonies are always these highly ritualized affairs, the doctorate ceremony especially so since there's that hooding thing that happens. (I skipped my own commencement. If I ever go back into academia, I have no idea what I will do for regalia. That will likely be the least of my problems though.)
Anyways, congrats! It's all over and you can get on with your life!
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