Convocation was Wednesday in Edmonton. I at first thought it was a pretty outrageous idea to travel all the way up the QEII highway just to walk across a stage and get 3 seconds of fame. Indeed it was as expected, three seconds of walking across a stage, but everything else was pretty good and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Dean Lynch bought all of the grads lunch and we has a chance to catch up with a few classmates. Then we did a few photos in the gowns and headed over to the Jubilee Auditorium for a few speeches and a parade across the stage.

I have to say that I thought the speeches were a ton better than expected, I wondered sometimes as an undergrad how out of touch the administration was with what actually went on on campus. While I’m probably still justified in thinking that to a certain extent what everyone had to say was particularly relevant to the occasion and as a whole rather well presented.

So as Dr. Zemp would say “I’m running out of things to say so let’s look at some pictures”