Just...massive.

Alright, I know I'm behind on posting this, but it's taken about three days to have it sink in that I've graduated, not to mention they just now today posted my final grades... Anyways, despite all the bullsh*t that went into planning graduation, it's nice to see that my last day as an undergrad wasn't completely massacred, in fact, it was pretty good.

The transformation the Diag underwent was just astonishing. There were chairs lined up all the way to North U, and you couldn't even get a full grasp of how many people were there unless like, you were Bob Woodruff at the podium.

Speaking of Woodruff, he was pretty good as our commencement speaker despite the fact that he brought up his head injury one too many times. But just one. Otherwise he was pretty funny, cracking jokes when he forgot what the word for "space" was because of his word aphasia (meaning he can tell you "up," "stars" and "blackness," but not "space") that he sustained during his ordeal when "he got blown up, but didn't die. And that's apparently what it takes to be invited to speak at U of M commencement" (his words, not mine).

The highlight of the event however, was the student speaker. I forget his first name, but his last is Ramos, and when you open a speech with "according to ancient Cherokee legend..." you know you're in for a treat. He told a story about a wolverine trying to break through the sky or something, and the audience reactions were priceless, as we were all audibly sad whenever the wolverine failed at something and were so happy when he finally got to eat the sun or whatever the hell happened at the end. I've never been so inspired by something I didn't remotely understand.

So all in all it was a pretty good ceremony. I'm tempted to say it actually is almost cooler that it wasn't in the Big House, as I'm not sure if any class will ever graduate in the Diag again. U of M, I apologize for the sh*t I've been giving you for the past few months about this, it actually turned out alright.

And what is it like to be an alum now? I'll leave that philosophizing for another day. I'm in Hawaii bitches, real life can wait.

Additional photos and captions courtesy of The Record.