{"id":181,"date":"2003-06-18T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T00:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2003\/06\/18\/bye-bye-grads\/"},"modified":"2003-06-18T16:46:36","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T00:46:36","slug":"bye-bye-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2003\/06\/18\/bye-bye-grads","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye, Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2003_grad_group.jpg\"<\/a> first photo: glen with a handful of MS&E grads<\/i>
\nsecond photo: our grads from the grad party we had on Saturday. We\u2019re missing a few, but you get the idea.<\/i><\/p>\n

This was a pretty hectic weekend\u2013it was graduation time for a number of our students!<\/p>\n

This was my first Stanford graduation, so I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect\u2026<\/p>\n

Here are some observations:<\/p>\n

1) Stanford doesn\u2019t take graduation too seriously. Less secure schools make everybody act formal and solemn, but Stanford lets students act celebratory at their celebration. You can see a video of the aptly-named \u201cWacky Walk<\/a>.\u201d I heard there were streakers, but I didn\u2019t see any. It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if there were\u2013it fits the school culture.
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2) The commencement speaker was Alejandro Toledo, the president of Peru. There\u2019s a video snippet from his speech<\/a> online. He\u2019s got an amazing story. He was raised in abject poverty, and through the intervention of the Peace Corps was able to come to America to get a degree, and ultimately to become the first indigenous president of his country.<\/p>\n

3) It was HOT! I\u2019m just glad I didn\u2019t get worse sunburn than I did.<\/p>\n

4) After the main graduation ceremony, there were around 70 smaller graduation ceremonies for individual departments. That was the one where they call students name by name and actually hand them a diploma. The one I attended, for the major of Management, Science, and Engineering had a rather scrumptious free buffet afterwards.<\/p>\n

5) We\u2019re really going to miss our grads. Bye, guys! Don\u2019t forget to write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

first photo: glen with a handful of MS&E grads second photo: our grads from the grad party we had on Saturday. We\u2019re missing a few, but you get the idea. This was a pretty hectic weekend\u2013it was graduation time for a number of our students! This was my first Stanford graduation, so I wasn\u2019t sure what to \u2026 Continue reading \u201cBye-bye, Grads\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-2V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}