10 May 2003 - 19:09

Sorry to keep you all in suspense.

My bacc. went beautifully. R1, Arcanologist, Oregano, some un-psuedonymed people and of course Wheel came. We had sandwiches and cheeses and chips and lemonade.

I had some technical problems in the beginning, but it all worked out and I gave a good presentation. My committee asked a variety of stimulating questions, some of which I could answer and some of which I couldn't. They supplied a few real gems that I'll work into revisions and future work. I love my profs. I was surprised that they didn't ask me anything about my college experience or transcripts--the only question in that area was what skills I thought I most needed to get right now, and I knew exactly how I wanted to answer that: acoustics, hardware tech, and programming. They didn't really talk about my methods or results much, although there were some questions about what one might do next, from my results.

I was so busy talking to my friends that I was still talking when they returned from having conferred/filled out paper work in private. Smiles and hugs and handshakes. Then they asked about my future plans, and then everyone gave me advice regarding grad schools and jobs.

I was really worried about the whole thing before hand, but I wasn't nervous at all during, and afterwards I felt good, like it went really well and it wasn't such a big deal or anything.

Now I'm... relaxing. I feel really good. House cleaning. Shopping. Exercising. Eating good food and studying things I want to study and pampering myself.

Also, I got a present for myself after my bacc! A big weird cool exotic present. I spent the whole day playing with it and pondering related things, but that's for another entry.

Tomorrow we're going to West Palm to attend a wedding. After that it's back to work for a week or two, and then guests start arriving.

Oh, and I've already started working on my thesis revisions for the library! Go me.