thank you for your moving analysis of how “High School Musical” is relatable to our lives as college graduates.
Next time, stick with the Pokemon theme song - it’s far more motivational.
Props to the university president for telling the whole audience that his daughters for one, HATE High School Musical.
Apart from that…
it felt darn good to get that diploma.
Taking a one second video. Every Day. For an entire year. This was what April looked like, and for those of you who are interested in a day-by-day breakdown,…
A breakdown of what happened each day:
1. Setting a potential new geocache
2. More sushi!
3. Finishing up interview 3/4 for a work related project
4. Meeting up with an old camp friend for dinner and shenanigans
5. Coincidental meeting back up with another old camp friend…this time at camp, around a bonfire
6. Behind the scenes - filming a promo video for the new pool at Skyview Ranch
7. Sticking my head out the moon roof while going down a country road
8. Painting my first color wheel in 19th grade arts and crafts
9. Physical therapy - balancing exercises
10. Finished up interviews with international students - gave the Brazilian a high five
11.Dropped a friend off at Megabus in Cleveland…the happiest looking city around
12. Getting a free haircut!
13. Locked my keys in my car…
14. Strengthening up some muscles that haven’t worked since December
15. My photo made it into the Art Gallery!
16. Editing - LOTS of editing
17. Flag at half mast after the Boston Marathon bombing
18. Reading for class outside
19. Taking a video of a photo being taken of some of my pals
20. At the Cleveland Museum of Art!
21. Isaiah 61:3
22. My favorite tree on campus is starting to look spring-y
23. Farewell get together for some of our lovely international students!
24. Rode a real bike for the first time since surgery!
25. Taking a stroll at Coe Lake
26. More late-night reading for class
27. Photoshopping it up!
28. Mmm….Frozen Custard
29. Late night study session in the library
30. Wisdom Teeth are OUT! And so was I.
Trying to type the word “gnaw” in a program that doesn’t have a spell check feature.
first try: knaw
“Hmm…that doesn’t seem right…”
delete delete delete
second try: naw
“Still not sure what’s right…”
delete delete delete
types “naw” into Microsoft Word document.
“Of course!”
third try: gnaw
…the conversation between my therapist and me (within 60 minutes) goes like this:
funny cat videos > dragons > Game of Thrones > Walking Dead > Velociraptors > Jurassic Park > Titanic > more dragons > referencing comedians > back to velociraptors > traveling > Imagine Dragons > Icelandic Indie Pop (aka Of Monsters and Men)
Almost makes me forget I’m not allowed to jog yet…almost.
While studying abroad, I took two courses that I thought would be the easiest courses to get transferred back to my home university: Introduction to Photography and Introduction to Photoshop.
Unlike ANY OTHER COURSE I took while abroad, these were the only two with exactly the same title and content as my home university.
Unfortunately, our Art Department does appear to think highly of courses from other institutions, meaning, unlike any other department I had to work with (History, German, Film, Communications) in order to get courses transferred, this specific department took a week to deliberate on whether or not these 2 intro-level courses would count for a graduating senior who is neither art major nor art minor.
End result: Photoshop would transfer for my photoshop credit (needed to graduate), Photography however, would not (also needed for my film major and thus for graduation).
Thankfully, my film advisor is in the business of helping students graduate on time and accepted the general fine arts credit I received from the Art Department (for a photography course) as my photography course I need to graduate.
All this was decided on last Friday morning.
Twelve hours later, I found out that a photograph of mine:
won an award in our Student Art Show and will be leased by my university and displayed for the next year in our admissions office (or Dean’s or something…I wasn’t there at the opening reception/awards ceremony). 
Do I care about winning an award?
No, not really.
Do I still feel a sense of “in your face” towards a department that on one day both spurned my photography and gave me an award for it?
Yes. Yes I do.
Now if only they would stop taking artistic liberty with my last name…
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