Graduation!

First off, here's what the mortar board ended up looking like:


In case you can't tell, that's a plastic submarine bathtoy on my head, with blue sparkly "waves" around the edges. I obviously take my B.S. seriously. Sadly, I don't have any detailed pictures of some of the other, more spectacular decorations of my classmates, though I do have pictures of a few of my classmates and me on parade.



Looking from and then back at Drake Stadium, where we had lined up. My friends and I were about halfway through the Life Sciences Division line. Remember - here at UCLA, you're one in a million!

The big Letters & Science graduation ceremony seen above was on Friday evening. Saturday, Grandma, Aunt Beth, and Uncle Todd joined us in Westwood where we watched a bit of the World Cup at BrewCo, then went to the LACMA and later to the Getty for a very nice dinner.


Ariel, Emily, and me at the Getty. (Yes, Em's making a silly face but I still like the photo a lot. She should learn to stop making silly faces in all of my pictures.)

Sunday was the EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) graduation ceremony. The marine biology majors were first on stage, and I managed to get myself into third place in line, so I was graduated and done long before the rest of the bio nerds.


Jess K, Romina, and me just before the march into Wilson Plaza. Jess and Romina were my two roommates in Moorea. (The two guys in the background are Wil and Antonio, two of my groupmates on the MBQ research projects.)

After the graduation, we all wandered into Westwood for lunch at Damon & Pythias. Grandma and the San Franciscans drove home soon after, while the rest of us returned to the Getty for a few hours. Emily, Ariel, and I fancied ourselves artistes, so we took a lot of random scenery pictures.





This particular shot is part of an LA skyline panorama. If you click the picture to see the full-size version, you'll see that I added a few key landmarks in the Westwood region. Essentially the last four years in 740kb. How convenient.