Hooray for Graduation!!!

This past weekend I graduated from Northeastern. Here is a description of the cool things that happened in a handy bulleted list:

• The procession took 55 minutes. That is a LONG time. And then the ceremony only took 2 1/2 hours. Pretyt impressive, more on that later.
  
• The valedictorian of each college walked in separately, and they announced their GPA individually. Highest of comedies after each GPA was announced. After hearing numbers like 3.91 and 3.93, half the graduates booed when someone from Criminal Justice (I think) was announced with only a 3.88. After one of the valedictorians was announced, someone yelled out "Safety School!". John Vulner, genius of the Computer Science college, was announced second to last with a 3.990. The hundred of us went nuts, cause he was the highest of all valedictorians. Then they announced the guy from Engineering Technology with a 4.0, but if you know anything about Northeastern and the Engineering Tech program, you know that doesn't count. High comedy.
  
• We got the standard speech from the president of the Alumni Association. You know, standard "you've had a good time, don't forget to give us more money." The flip side was that this guys name was Dick Power. Seriously. I'll let you make your own jokes.
  
• Our speaker was the Chief Executive of GE, Jeff Immault. Pretty decent speech: "I always feel nervous coming to these things, because I always assume I was the second choice. I know BC has Condoleeza Rice speaking, and Tufts got Lance Armstrong. Of course, it could be worse. The University of Arkansas has George Steinbrenner speaking, and the University of Colorado got Paris Hilton. Though what sets me apart from all of these speakers is that I'm the only one that can give you a job." Very appropriate for Northeastern.
  
• All 3000 or so graduates walked on stage and were given their diploma. Remember how the procession was close to an hour? Well those took closer to half an hour. They had us all going to the stage in four separate lines, each line a different college shaking hands with their Dean. And to my knowledge, everyone got the right diploma. Pretty well done.
  

Anyway, after the ceremony I had a full weekend of family fun. Thanks to everyone for making the weekend great.