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Oh yeah, I graduated today. The weather was nice, Maya Angelou’s speech was very good… I’m not even sure why I liked it, but I did (I rarely enjoy poetry). Graduation this year doesn’t mean all that much to me since I’m not going to stop taking classes, nor am I going to another school. It’s more of a milestone than a transition. I’ll definitely be sad to see some of my friends go, but the majority of them are either staying here or will be nearby.

With that said, Tim is currently in the process of moving to Texas (he should be there tomorrow), which is sad though probably a good change for him. Since freshman year, he’s been closest to my programming abilities (able to work faster than me on a lot of stuff, but not so fast that I get lost), which was very important, and through that we became close friends. I’ll definitely miss him, though I’m confident we’ll be able to keep in touch since we’re always online anyway.

I graduated magna cum laude, though I want to do better in grad school. Who knows how that’ll go, but I really think that I made extracurricular things come before school very often: I know my involvement in band adversely affected my GPA in some cases (and I think it’s worth it).

It was good to spend time with my family this weekend and say hello to friends I hadn’t seen in a while. Most of the summer residents have moved in to the house, which is good (though it’s quite a mess at the moment, but I’ll wait for the dust to settle).

I’m giving an informal presentation on doxygen and maybe subversion at a work meeting tomorrow, plus I have class 4-7 (public speaking!).