{"id":399,"date":"2008-05-28T02:31:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T07:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:39","slug":"graduation-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/graduation-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation &amp; Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since my last post, due to my intervening graduation with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin&#8211;Madison.  It would be a lie if I were to say that some frivolity thereafter did not also keep me from this blog.  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>So, to quickly recap what&#8217;s been happening, in pseudo-sequential order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Me, Dave, and Jared graduated <br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/colin-grad.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/colin-grad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Graduate Colin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"margin-left: 3em;\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-400\" \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dave-grad.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dave-grad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Graduate Dave\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-400\" \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jared-grad.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jared-grad-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Graduate Jared\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-400\" \/><\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Apparently the University thought I was smart enough to get some extra red for my costume, which clashed magnificently with the orange tassel of Engineering:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/clashing-sash.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/clashing-sash-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Clashing Stole &#038; Tassel\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"margin-left: 3em;\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-403\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nActually, I&#8217;m pretty proud of that: the red stole is the &#8220;Distinguished Scholar Award&#8221;, which is given to the top 20% of each class in GPA.  I hit that category pretty well, having managed to keep a 4.0 all the way through college!<\/li>\n<li>Then since the red stole with orange tassel didn&#8217;t cover enough of the spectrum, I further added some yellow and gold in the form of an Eta Kappa Nu honor stole &#038; cords:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/many-sashes.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/many-sashes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Many Stoles\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-405\" style=\"margin-left: 3em;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd, because I think it&#8217;s an awesome shot and I want to highlight Jason who took all of the above graduation photos, here&#8217;s that golden stole again:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hkn.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hkn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HKN Stole\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"margin-left: 3em;\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-404\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>After graduation I enjoyed some great food with my relatives, at Biaggi&#8217;s in Middleton (<em>awesome<\/em> Italian) and Pizzeria Uno as well (great deep dish, but watch out for the &#8220;Spinoccoli&#8221;, it gave my sister food poisoning).<\/li>\n<li>The next day Dave and Jared both had grad parties, at Devil&#8217;s Lake and in Green Bay, respectively.  Good times all around.<\/li>\n<li>Later in the week, Jason, Justin, and I took a 10.4-mile bike ride along Lake Mendota Drive, with a brief detour through Dairy Queen on the way home.  Later that night we cooked up our own custom stir fry with Dave.  It was pretty decent, though left a few lessons learned \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dairy-queen1.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dairy-queen1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dairy Queen Pitstop\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"margin-left: 3em;\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-407\" \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/stir-fry.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/stir-fry-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stir Fry from scratch\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-408\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Later in the week, I went to Body Worlds at the Milwaukee Public Museum with Jeni.  It was pretty cool to see, though also fairly creepy&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>On Friday night, Nate had his birthday party \/ Lauren&#8217;s going away party at our place, reuniting me with Em and Jamie, who I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen in at least a year.  Good times again.<\/li>\n<li>Finally by Sunday I was headed back to Green Bay, through a rather amazing storm just North of Madison.  The clouds were so thick I thought it was night&#8230; up until I reached the edge of them and saw that the sun was only just setting.  It was beautiful.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/stormy-ceiling.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/stormy-ceiling-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stormy Ceiling\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" style=\"margin-left: 3em;\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-409\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oh yeah.  And lest I actually graduate having accomplished something with that ridiculous fountain I&#8217;ve been working on for four years&#8230;  Check out what we found (and flooded ourselves with) in the basement:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/broken-pipe.jpg' rel='lightbox[grad052808]'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/broken-pipe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Broken Pipe\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"margin-left: 3em;\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-410\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Nice.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since my last post, due to my intervening graduation with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin&#8211;Madison. It would be a lie if I were to say that some frivolity thereafter did not also keep me from this blog. \ud83d\ude00 So, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}