BeGiN_
Well, My days as a college student is officially over(for now). A new milestone of my life has opened up and its actually kind of weird. Its like I just currently got stuck in limbo. Either that or its the euphoria from graduation. I would have posted something sooner but I never got around to doing it at all. The sad thing is that I never went parting or anything like that. I DID however went out with my family to eat and shop and stuff but nothing spectacular in my opinion.
Now I moved back home temporarily until I can find a good paying job in my profession. There was actually a report done on this earlier in the year about this exact thing. I never believed that it would happen to me BUT it actually did. I don’t really mind since its a welcomed change of pace. Now I can officially sleep and recover from all of the crazy schedules and insane deadlines. I can stretch it with the best of em but after a while, it has adverse effects on the body. AND eventually you become tired all the time and your keen design sense goes out of the window for a much less taxing solution. Sooooo…..I did actually have fun at the graduation….
GrADuAtIoN Day_ SePt 25, 2004_
Graduation day was all about rushing to get where you were going. First of all the Art Institutes don’t necessarily have big theatres on the properties of their campuses so they try to find alternatives. Before , it was at the George R. Brown Convention Center but for some reason they were compelled to go to UH. Yes….The University Of Houston. They have a performance arts center called Cullen Hall.
First of all, The UH campus is HUGE! They even have their own Hilton DIRECTLY on campus. I visited universities and all BUT I never seen anything like that. Secondly, did I say that the campus was huge? I mean Extremely Huge. That thing spans a NUMBER of city blocks. I don’t think that I could ever attend something like that. Especially with little or no transportation and no map…But ANYWAY…
We had to be there 2 hours early in order to rehearse the march that we had to do. They also had to train the announcer to say our names right. Seeing that our department has the most crazy thinkers ever. We wore our hats and tassels throughout the entire rehearsal. We got a couple of giggles but otherwise it was something to do there. Also our department was the biggest graduation class.
In the front of the hall, WE had to wait about 45mins so that the “others” could prepare for the day. So we are basically outside in Houston weather which is about 95 degrees with a heat index of 110 daily. Eventually they allowed us to wait in the lobby but we got a chance to clown the help and watch the pretty co-eds walk by outside. At about 2:30PM we had to go in the back and line up.
Backstage, we got to wait another 45mins because the MAYOR was late. Yes….Mayor Bill White, of Houston spoke but anyway… WE were bored so we clowned around throwing around insults at eachother until we spotted the instructors. The instructors was in a room at the top of a stairwell that we were standing in. SOOOO we clowned them until they came down to line up with us. After that, we started spouting random quotes from the recent movies that many of us seen and tailored them to include one of the instructors standing infront of us. We got a pretty good laugh out of them but in the end it was time to get serious…..almost.
There was this guy who marched in front of me who at rare times would space out because he couldn’t believe that he was graduating. But atleast he didn’t faint or more importantly, vomit on me. As usual, in the ceremony we had the usual speakers and …….Bill White. Put it like this, the man had to fill a certain time slot and I think that he went OVER. Everytime he stopped to think up the words to say he would open up with (texas accent)”I tell ya what”. It wasn’t one of the most boring speeches that I ever heard BUT it was up there.
Later, there was this one nerdy dude who was awarded with a couple of awards. AND every time he went up, one of us had something to say while everyone was quiet. So it made his walk even more nerve racking. WE even simulated anxious heartbeats on one particular walk. You could just see the squeamish expression on his face everytime he went up. Soooo soon after, it was time to receive the awards….
I was pretty composed when I sat down after getting my degree. Compared to the guy next to me….I was cool…
He sat down… Looked ahead at the stage…. Paused… Looked down at the “degree holder”… Rubbed the top… …By now I am snickering at him…
…I ask him if he’s ok. He says, “….Its….Over…Its Real….”. By now I’m laughing at him.
He RUBS it AGAIN!…
He opens the holder and in it says “Sal Ba–censored name–“(for obvious reasons…that’s not his full name…)”Associates Degree of Applied Sciences”
(funny part)
He closes it… OPENS IT AGAIN!!…. Looks at it… Closes it… OPENS IT AGAIN!!!… Closes it again….
I ask him AGAIN if he’s ok. He says, “I’m Ok, I’m OK. Its real I’m good now. I’m back.” Now I’m laughing even harder.
Guess what… HE OPENS IT ONE MORE TIME!!! GAWD….. Now he had ME checking more than once…
….so I look and start laughing at myself….
he looks at me and started giggling.
ANYWAY. I’m an Official Professional Multimedia & Web Designer.
….Now comes the hard part. FINDING A JOB…
But…. afterwards, me and my family went to the Golden Coral. IT was a brand new one and it was one of the most recent Golden Corals that I have been to. (AKA I don’t normally eat there from all the rumors that I heard.) Later we went to Katy Mills Mall where we spent the rest of the day clowning around as usual.
well…. that was about it… later I’ll post about my road trip back to Louisiana.
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