Maybe Just a Chapter This Time
In another four days, it would have been exactly four years since I graduated from HP. However, I think that I can manage with it not being precisely lined up like that. Last year at this point I was getting ready to start summer school and take a trip to Japan. This year the parallel is close, but the trip isn’t quite as far away and the work I have to do over the summer is actually work.
UTD’s graduation seemed like it was much more efficient and streamlined than HP’s was. They didn’t try to put too much order into it (such as having us all alphabetized) but instead just had us grouped together by majors. There were also a bunch of ceremonies throughout the day, so each one only had two schools, keeping the number of people in each reasonable. All in all, not a process that I liked so much that I want to spend another four years to do it again, but it was better than I was anticipating.