Today was my sister's graduation ceremony. I remember as a kid, watching the Cosby Show and seeing Theo graduate from college. The joke of that episode was that the school was so big that they had no moment of personal accomplish for Theo, no walk to the stage, just the simple act of "candidates rise", turn your tassels from one side to the other, "you're now graduated". That was my sister's graduation ceremony. Since she's getting a Master's, there's a little more than just standing up, and having your tassel turn from one side to the other -- the grad students stand up, and get "hooded" by the professors and then sit down. Before that moment is 1 1/2 hours of speeches by faculty and guest speakers (which I could sleep through). My point? Graduation ceremonies like the one depicted in The Cosby Show do exist, and they aren't myth.
I've also come to realize that Berkeley is ridiculously stingy about students entering the School of Business -- during my time there, they let only 125 students in per academic year -- while at SJSU they had more than 1000 graduate from that department.
Afterwards, we went out for dim sum, where I discovered my parents are incredibly demanding restaurant patrons. I also figured out that my bottomless pit of a stomach comes from my mother and my sense of taste comes from my father.
Meanwhile, my other sister is touring across Europe -- she just sent us an email from an internet cafe in Amsterdam and will be on her way to Switzerland tomorrow.
I love my parents, but at the same time, I can hardly wait for them to leave so that my sister and I can return to our normal lives...
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