This weekend was a blur of rehearsal Friday, my graduation party on Saturday, and commencement yesterday.  It's hard to believe that it is all over.

Rehearsal was a funny thing because I was seeing classmates in my college and department that I hadn't seen in ages.  You would think that all of us being biological science majors would see more of each other, but I ran into a high school classmate with whom I'd had exactly zero classes during college.  I think because College of Biological Science is so darn big it is completely possible to never see some people until it's finally time to walk.  (But we made friends with the five or six people around us in line during the course of our 1.5-hour rehearsal and the 3-hour ceremony yesterday!)

Senator Glenn was our speaker and I honestly don't remember very much of what he said because I was too busy losing electrolytes, but I did manage to snag a picture with him during the recessional.  Unfortunately, I am not looking at the camera... >_<

(Also, President Gee touched my arm while he was heading to the RPAC for meet and greet.  !!!  I am always in awe of that man...he's really a force of nature.)

I wore a masking tape guanine molecule on my cap in honor of my friend and classmate who also graduated this quarter but decided not to walk.  It matches the friendship necklace I gave her...I have the base-pair analog cytosine.  There were some pretty neat mortar boards...among my favorites were an engineering student's rocket, a Spider-man cap from someone in bio-sci, and my classmate (now and future--we're in the same M.Ed program!) Michelle's pretty blue cap.  I guess you have to keep yourself entertained during the ceremony...there were the standard beach balls, the nursing (I think...) students had balloons, and the vet students had inflated the arm-length gloves they use when...working with large bovines.

My favorite moment?  Singing Carmen, Ohio with my classmates.  I guess that is the best part of being an Ohio State student and graduate: being part of something bigger than myself.  I don't know everyone who was in the stadium that day, but we will always share that connection of being the class of 2009--which is supposedly the largest graduation of any university in the world...yet.

And so, after four years, I finally have what I worked for.

O-H-I-O!