Picking up from yesterday –
Okay, so here’s the real stuff we care about!
The first small thing is when I was in my seat, I remembered that one of my tutors who, I think, became my friend as we’d sometimes do zooms outside of tutoring and text and things – she was graduating! I was like “wait a second, she was gonna finish this year, right? I checked and her name was in the program. I texted her. We texted pics back and forth from where we were sitting. We were silly and happy and it was good!
And then as I was waiting to walk, I saw my professor who’d encouraged me to go back to school, and has really been a positive force in my life (getting me to try new things like vegetarianism, giving sage advice and things; he’s a cool person). So, that was a fun surprise of excitement.
Then I walked. I reeeeeeally want to walk with my gown wide open, since gowns are shapeless, so people could see I’m cute and my waist goes in. But, I thought I’d get in trouble or something, so I didn’t.
After I walked, I went and sat down and I asked one of my favorite MP&E (Music Production and Engineering) Professors if he was there. He WAS and he was like “yeah, I’m in the front row. You walked by us!” And I was like “I WHAT?!”
I was about to be real sad if I didn’t get to see him. He thought there might be a procession out and I’d be led out without getting to see him, but luckily that didn’t happen. So, right after the ceremony, I ran up to the front row and gave him the biggest hug! It was really lovely to see him, as he was my professor WAY back in the day and then also on zoom in current day! [I mean, he’s not a secret haha. It was Prince Charles (grammy winner).]
So, that was lovely.
The one semi-embarrassing part was when we got to the point where people could throw their hats, and I was really bad at it. I didn’t want to lose my hat. I didn’t want to accidentally take someone’s eye out. The hat throwing was more stressful than I thought haha. I guess for future reference, if you don’t decorate your hat, you should probably put your name on the inside so you can be sure you don’t actually lose it.
(Although, it would probably be pretty hard to lose a hat completely – if there were no markings, you just might get someone else.)
So, I did a few little tiny throws instead of one big good one. I was in a big group, so you’d think no one would notice… except my sister who totally made fun of me later! (But all in good and loving fun, not in a mean way.)
And that was it.
The ceremony was over. My family had a slightly hard time finding each other, but we did. Then we all bought Berklee gear, which I think is funny that everyone is so willing to drop such an exorbitant amount of money just because it’s graduation day, so everyone wants all this expensive gear. (But that was my parents who were doing that, so thanks for my hat! Every person in my family got something. We were a big Berklee squad.)
And that concludes graduation. And I’ll talk about what else we did on graduation day tomorrow!