One day until graduation! Today was my one-on-one crit with Michael Minelli, and he said some highly complimentary things. He gave me some really good ideas for how I might install this thing in the future, if I ever show it somewhere else. But after all the advice he said, "But the bottom line is, I walk in this room and I know immediately, this person knows what they're doing." He also said my project was brave since I took on the whole room and it was so elegant and minimal in a lot of ways. In the afternoon, we had our cake party with the faculty where they "officially" announced, or confirmed, or whatever, that we are all going to graduate. Big shock there. Next there was the graduation rehearsal, where stand-ins pretended to be the faculty who read our blurb and pretended to be our family members handing us our diplomas. It was pretty funny. There's a lot of drama going on in our group, but it's just too long and complicated to go into deta
I'm done, people! Today was the big day. The day to end all days. The day that will last in infamy. It started off like any regular day. We walked into town and looked in little shops. I saw a few things I liked but they were too expensive. We ate at the famous three-penny taproom, it was good. Then I had to prepare for the big meeting. My grad review. The one where I publicly defend my work for 30 minutes against two faculty members, and there's also an observer from the new incoming class. It was so amazing and I did great. They tried to trap me with their questions. I ran into my student observer later in the dorm and she said that the faculty were so impressed with me, she heard them talking afterward. I'm too tired to elaborate right now. Then I gave the last presentation I will ever give. I gave my slideshow presentation to the entire student body. We had a Q&A segment afterward and it was fun. Then there was a bond fire and people roasted marshmallows.