Graduation
Last Wednesday was my graduation ceremony. I didn’t go, mostly because it would have been a big hassle to be in Toronto at 8:30am. It was webcast and I watched parts of it but it was too boring to sit through the whole thing, even with a fast forward button. The non-streaming wmv file is about 100MB. It made me laugh when the chancellor got up to read the names of all the students who were receiving their degrees in absentia and suddenly the sound cut out, she moved her lips silently for a few seconds, and then the video showed everybody standing up and filing out the convocation hall.
This stupid bachelor’s degree seemed like such a big deal when I was still at school and it was so incredibly stressful, but now that I’ve got a job my degree seems more like the bare minimum, sort of like kindergarten. I guess it’s good to have. But it’s better to have it out of the way. To celebrate I signed all my loan consolidation forms and took them to the bank. I’m going to be making $479.17 in student loan payments every month for the next 10 years.
