My Graduation

As I previously mentioned in my last post, I finished my Master's degree, and it feels good.

My graduation ceremony was on Thursday May 10th, in the evening.  It started at 7:00 PM.  I had gotten an email in the morning informing us that Bill Cosby was speaking at the ceremony.  I had not realized previous to this email that he was also a Temple University Alum.  So needless to say we were pretty stoked, I had high hopes for this ceremony.  Spoiler alert, his speech was bad, pretty boring, not really funny, sort of rambling.  And then to top it off he didn't even stay for the whole ceremony, he just walked right off the stage and out of the building when his speech was over.  Not Classy Bill, not classy.

After I easily found my friends from the program, there was a very high level of excitement that I had not felt previous to the ceremony.  This level of excitement stayed with me through the rest of the night.  I hadn't realized how freaking good I felt about myself for finishing until it was actually official.  And it hadn't felt official before that.

That was partly one of my professors fault, in my social determinants of health class, for scheduling a final the night before from 5:30 to 8:00.  Super lame.  Anyways back to the ceremony.  I got all dolled up in my cap and gown, and I felt pretty fancy in my pink velvet hood that we got to wear.  I love the outfits at a graduation.

Since Temple prides itself on being a diverse, urban school, offerring a diverse urban education, you can imagine that the spectators at this graduation were very rowdy, even more than I had expected but I didn't let it ruin the experience for me.  I loved getting to walk across the stage, and then refusing to take my cap and gown off when we went to get celebratory frozen yogurt after it was over, getting congratulated by all the people on the street.  It was slightly embarrassing, but also awesome.  I figured I might as well live it up, it might be the last time I could wear a cap and gown and public and get away with it.  Unless of course I decide to get my PhD.....

So anyways, that was lots of rambling but the moral of the story is, I did it.  I graduated. It was a lot of fun.