{"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 pho\u00adto: glen with a hand\u00adful of MS&E grads<\/i>
\nsec\u00adond pho\u00adto: our grads from the grad par\u00adty we had on Sat\u00adur\u00adday. We\u2019re miss\u00ading a few, but you get the idea.<\/i><\/p>\n

This was a pret\u00adty hec\u00adtic weekend\u2013it was grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion time for a num\u00adber of our stu\u00addents!<\/p>\n

This was my first Stan\u00adford grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, so I was\u00adn\u2019t sure what to expect\u2026<\/p>\n

Here are some obser\u00adva\u00adtions:<\/p>\n

1) Stan\u00adford does\u00adn\u2019t take grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion too seri\u00adous\u00adly. Less secure schools make every\u00adbody act for\u00admal and solemn, but Stan\u00adford lets stu\u00addents act cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adto\u00adry at their cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion. You can see a video of the apt\u00adly-named \u201cWacky Walk<\/a>.\u201d I heard there were streak\u00aders, but I did\u00adn\u2019t see any. It would\u00adn\u2019t sur\u00adprise me if there were\u2013it fits the school cul\u00adture.
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2) The com\u00admence\u00adment speak\u00ader was Ale\u00adjan\u00addro Tole\u00addo, the pres\u00adi\u00addent of Peru. There\u2019s a video snip\u00adpet from his speech<\/a> online. He\u2019s got an amaz\u00ading sto\u00adry. He was raised in abject pover\u00adty, and through the inter\u00adven\u00adtion of the Peace Corps was able to come to Amer\u00adi\u00adca to get a degree, and ulti\u00admate\u00adly to become the first indige\u00adnous pres\u00adi\u00addent of his coun\u00adtry.<\/p>\n

3) It was HOT! I\u2019m just glad I did\u00adn\u2019t get worse sun\u00adburn than I did.<\/p>\n

4) After the main grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion cer\u00ade\u00admo\u00adny, there were around 70 small\u00ader grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion cer\u00ade\u00admonies for indi\u00advid\u00adual depart\u00adments. That was the one where they call stu\u00addents name by name and actu\u00adal\u00adly hand them a diplo\u00adma. The one I attend\u00aded, for the major of Man\u00adage\u00adment, Sci\u00adence, and Engi\u00adneer\u00ading had a rather scrump\u00adtious free buf\u00adfet after\u00adwards.<\/p>\n

5) We\u2019re real\u00adly going to miss our grads. Bye, guys! Don\u2019t for\u00adget to write!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

first pho\u00adto: glen with a hand\u00adful of MS&E grads sec\u00adond pho\u00adto: our grads from the grad par\u00adty we had on Sat\u00adur\u00adday. We\u2019re miss\u00ading a few, but you get the idea. This was a pret\u00adty hec\u00adtic weekend\u2013it was grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion time for a num\u00adber of our stu\u00addents! This was my first Stan\u00adford grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, so I was\u00adn\u2019t sure \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}