Hey, how about a huge party?

[dradamsapple]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Betty Landers <drumforever at e...> wrote:
> I just graduated from college (with a B.A. psychology, if anyone 
wants
> to know).  Any fellow Tar Heel Alums on here?
> 
> Anyway, I considered it done a week and a half ago, but it's 
official as
> of today.  We had the ceremony this morning and it was both huge and
> boring.  There were too many speakers and too many people to 
recognize,
> so we undergraduates just sat there and stood up when we were told 
to do
> so.  The masters and doctoral students were recognized personally 
and
> received some sort of diploma, but I don't know if it was their real
> one. 
> 
> Anyway, whatever I thought of the ceremony is kind of irrelevant; 
I've
> finished with school and I'm happy!
> 
> Pardon the ramble...
> Betty
> -- 
> Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat gray rat, which 
was
> asleep. 
> "His name's Scabbers and he's useless, he hardly ever wakes up ...."
> Ron Weasley: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone, Chapter six.

Betty,

Congratulations on your Graduation!  My own college graduation was 
exactly twenty years ago (May 16, 1982, 1:30pm to be exact; and no, I 
didn't remember it, I looked it up in my year book!).  
I have to agree with you, the ceremony itself is rather anti-climatic 
at times.  I remember that one of our speakers was An Wang, the 
founder and president of Wang laboratories (it's an OLD company that 
no longer exists here in Massachussetts), and the other speaker was 
Paul Tsongas the U.S. Senator from Massachussetts.  I guess at the 
time they were pretty prominent people but I could'nt save my life if 
I had to tell you what they said.  
The really important part of college is yes, of course, that stupid 
piece of parchment that will open doors, but it is also the 
friendships you make and party's that you've gone to, and stupid 
things you've done in class (on the last day of my organic chemistry 
class, we started drinking at 9:30am; NOT a good idea!!).Well, you 
know what I mean; it's the (*breaking out in song*) MEMORIES!! 
Anyhow, I'm rambling . . . sorry. I guess I'm getting little 
reminiscent (spelling?)of those good old days!  
God I feel old!!

Happy Graduation Betty!

Anna . . .