{"id":861,"date":"2012-12-17T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/17\/bens-commencement"},"modified":"2012-12-17T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:17:00","slug":"bens-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2012\/12\/17\/bens-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben’s Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though Ben finished his degree in August, and started work in September, we celebrated at his commencement on Saturday.\u00a0 He was given the Lady Ada Lovelace award for “outstanding achievement in computer science or computer information systems.”\u00a0 Sort of a Best in Class award.\u00a0 Ben will try to tell you that it’s not a big deal, and that really he was the only student who bothered to apply.\u00a0 But I don’t believe him!\u00a0 It’s a major award, bring out the leg lamp!<\/p>\n

My parents came up to attend his commencement and do some Christmas shopping and Jack time.\u00a0 Here are some pictures from the ceremony, the whole set is on flickr here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Having his award announced: \"DSC_0200\"<\/a>
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And receiving the award (taken from the jumbo screen, we were way in the back) \"DSC_0206\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When they got to the roll call to hand out diplomas, they skipped ahead two pages! So I was totally unprepared when Ben’s name was called.\u00a0 I managed to get a few at least.
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(those people standing up blocked my shot of him shaking hands) \"DSC_0219\"\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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But the afterward pictures are what matter anyway \ud83d\ude42 We are so proud of our graduate!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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I tried to have Jack wear the hat.\u00a0 He wasn’t up for funny hats after having to skip his nap.
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Or maybe he was declaring his intent to skip college.\u00a0 So my parents each got two bachelor degrees now?\u00a0 Fools! Send me to trade school.\u00a0 Bob the Builder is my hero.\u00a0 I got my tools and my flannel – I’m ready!<\/p>\n

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