Woot! Graduation tomorrow!

I'm so glad the "school" part of education is over. It was a long 2 years of 2-3 classes per week @5 hrs per class. Put a lot of stress on the wife. Well, I graduate tomorrow with a 3.99 , Highest Honors and Salutatorian.. I have a mini-speech I have to write now and I have no clue what I want to say

so ...how's you's guys's ?

 

I know I'm going to thank my family for putting up with long nights of me not being there and the faculty for putting up with my constant questions and challenges but beyond that I haven't any clue what to say. Most of the people who are graduating with me are non-traditional students and what can I say to them as well as the younger crowd that doesn't bore them half to death for the 5 minutes that plan on speaking. I don't know.. but I do know that I don't want to be cliche' ..

 

Congrats Kodo. Great job.
You will do great on your speech.

 

Congratulations, that is fantastic!

So happy for you! Have fun at the graduation, and make sure you make the most of the party (that I assume you will have after), you deserve it well!

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I'm kinda out of the loop may I ask what you'v graduated from Kodo,Nice work anyway

 

Congratulations Kodo. It's TOUGH balancing school on top of job and family. I made it to about the 3.5 year point and stalled out there.

I'd start my speech with "Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?", then congratulate all the older graduates for hanging in there with the additional challenges. And thank not only your family, but the others' families for being patient and supportive of their endeavors.

I'd then congratulate the younger students for doing it while young, with their whole life ahead of them, and more time and opportunity to grow.

Then remind them that while this is the culmination of a learning program, it is emphatically not the end of learning. An active mind should be learning until the day it dies. New challenges and opportunities will continue all through life.


Too many cliches in there for you?

 

See? Didn't I tell you you'd get through Fourth Grade?

Congratulations.

 

Congratulations Kodo. I wondered why we hadn't seen much of you for quite a while.
Now I know why. Well done. Bazza

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Congratulations on your graduation, Kodo!
That is great!!!!!!!!


Maggie

 

many congratz on your graduation, such a great accomplishment

 

Thanks everyone!
@Rikky: I have BA in psychology originally but I went back to school for an ASC in web development. The Dean of the software development department asked me to come back to teach in the spring as an adjunct professor

@Star.. I tell you mang, 4th grade was tough.. I didn't like getting paste on my hands.. blech! I preferred Elmers glue and that is what I wrote my essay on. "Elmers, because paste isn't made from horses!"

 

Way to go, Kodo!!! You da man!

Or, is it Professore Kodo now?

That's great.

 

Awesome Kodo...congratulations

 

I like it I think I will expand on that

 

Feel free. But I want a 10% royalty on any profits you make with it.

 

It'll probably be in the form of half eaten appetizers

 

OOooo... yummy.

 

Congrats on your new Diploma, 8-Ball. Now you can be a qualified web freak too!

 

Speech , Speech !!!!!!

Congratulations

 

And now your little lambs are off to join the big bad worldRemind them it was you who got them this far and wherever they end up put in a good word for you incase in the future you need a job

 

Kodo, assuming you wrote out your speech, would be good if you posted it here so we could all share it. Any pictures would be nice too.

 

Excellent!!!! Congratulations Kodo!!!!

That's gotta feel like the weight of the world off your shoulders!!!

Not much of a speaker myself, but since you are a psychologist, can't you just read everyone's mind and tell them what they wanna hear!?!?

Roger

 

@G.T. I'll post pics later
@Rog..I can't read minds.. I'm a man, not a chic(k).. mmkay?

 

Later is fine. And what are you doing here now? You're supposed to be off celebrating.

 

Whoops...my bad...too many Icehouses this afternoon...not thinking too clearly!!!!

Please excuse my ignorance!!!!

And...YEAH...what GT said above...you should be celebrating!! Unless ofcourse...you and the wife are celebrating!?!?!
Roger

 

I didn't have a party or anything.. I just went to other peoples parties instead

 

Congrats Kodo!

Sorry Its late, I was MIA all weekend, hope it all went well.

Matt

 

Hey bro, congrats on the graduation! I know it was a long road but well worth it.

 

man, most of the pics came out horrible. I Need a new digital camera for sure.

Anywho..here's a pic of me and Dr.Chan. Probably the most influencial professor I had during school.

 

Excellent photo!

So... Do you feel like you know everything? Everything you have to know? Or, as I did, enough to know where to find the answers?

 

Damn, I don't read this for a while and Kodo is all grown up
Congrats man! But where's the speech?

 

I feel that I got out of it what I wanted / needed and enough to know where to find the answers to more sophisticated problems as well as where to begin to expand on my skills.
@Fleppen : HEY MAN!!!!!!!!!! I didn't feel like posting the speech

 

Excellent!

 

If there's one thing I've learnt in life, it's that the more educated and knowledgeable I am, the more questions there are, and the tiny fraction I actually know. Even a PhD. with a double major only taught me basically how to ask questions a bit better.

Life is a journey of many paths. If you have a bit better 'compass and map', so to speak, for life, then it gives one a bit more scope opportunity, and a bit better toolkit for what you really want to do, if you know what I mean.

So, congrats once again, Jim!

(Now you can concentrate on the REALLY important things - like more 'Kodoisms', LoL!)

 

Your post reminds me of a lyric, Phantom:
"The more we know,
The less we understand.
Life, eternity, the savagery of man."

 

True dat! ~ Thanks, Flepp.