Graduation The German Way
No caps and gowns, just suits. So Friday was the graduation ceremony at my college. What a noteworthy event as me, my mom, my step-dad and my dad all drove down with my dad and spent the whole day together without drama. Haha! Nah, they’re always kind of civil of course.
We had some time to burn before the ceremony started so we had a cup of coffee at the cafeteria and then settled into our seats in the Mensa. Some uninspirational speaches from various professors and politicians (what relevance does the standardisation of the federal states’ school systems have to a university graduate?) and some skillfully performed classical music acts later my old math professor talked a bit. Funny anecdotes and I was totally reminded of how scared I was of him during the first semester. Horror! We all laughed at his little speech and then we got our degrees awarded. Jette and I were the only ones from my major and year but there were a couple of the bachelor students there who had shared some of the more or less fun classes with us in our 7th semester. Good times! We were all really happy and excited to finally hold this piece of paper that we had worked our butts of to get for 4+ years (ok so 5 but I didn’t really do anything towards my degree when I interned, did I?!).
After we had gotten our diplomas a fellow student gave another uninspirational speech but it was a nice summary of her time at the university. One more classical piece of music – this time violin and piano, a group photo and then we got to mingle and drink champaign sponsoerd by the university.
We got to see our main professor’s baby – soooooooo cute – and chatted for a while. I love my university. Everybody is like a big family there (more or less).
Anyway, we then drove back home and I invited my parents to the fancy restaurant in my village to say thanks for their sponsorship. Yummy! Expensive! Yikes!
So now I’m officially an alumni. Yay! I’m so proud of myself and uber happy as I’d never had thought to get a 1,5 diploma and that that still says “sehr gut”. Wheeeeee! 😀 [/bragmode]
Vacation Bummer
Awww big bummer, I was getting all excited because my friend Juliane had gotten next week off from work and we were gonna fly somewhere warm like Turkey. But now one of her fellow doctors (I think it’s really cool that one of my best friends is going to be a doctor by the way!) is out sick and so the hospital told her they need her. Hmpf. Bummer. 28°C, sunshine, the beach and all you can eat sure sounded like a nice plan. 🙁 She’s got the week after off but I can’t leave that week since I have some errands to run near Bielfeld and Frankfurt. Gugh. So we’ll see where operation vacation is heading towards. I might not go at all since most people have already used their vacation days for this year or have just started working or what not. Let me tell you, going on holiday is really one of the big things that make me wanna be not single but date some hot hunk that wants to travel with me but oh well, better than having some guy that wants to sit on a dull lake and fish all day long, huh?!
PS: My sister has just booked a trip to the Bahamas…. *wants too* 🙁
PPS: Graduation tomorrow – yay!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Yay! Big surprise! My professors have both graded my diploma thesis and – wow – I got a 1.7 from both of them (yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!) and I’ll actually be able to go to my graduation ceremony on Friday! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!! Super happy!!! Unbelievable!