UCDHSC Graduation
Don't I look like such a professor in my regalia?
Last Saturday my university held spring graduation. About 1,100 studends walked in the ceremony and about 150 faculty showed up to cheer the students on. I was a faculty marshall, meaning I was responsible for helping to direct and seat about 450 students that graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of which the Biology Department belongs. Attending graduation is a great reminder of why I like to teach. It is great to see students graduate and look so happy. Normally when I see them, they looked stressed out. Nearly all of our students work outside jobs and have family committments. The student in the picture below worked and has a young daughter. As faculty, we are very proud of our students and feel like they truly earned their diplomas.
My master's student Kazu graduated (he is in the above picture). Kazu is from Japan and he is about to return home to earn his Ph.D. Kazu will be remembered as my hardest working and most productive student and the coolest student. As a graduation gift I took to see Iggy Pop and the Stooges and he was SO happy because he didn't have any money left to buy a ticket.
The student below called me her favorite professor. I was very honored by that. She was a student in my human physiology class and hopes to attend medical school next year.
This is the view from my seat with the students:
In the background is our student union which was at one time a brewery. The graduation party, including many faculty, the provost and the CU president were up there facing the hot sun.
--Mike--
Last Saturday my university held spring graduation. About 1,100 studends walked in the ceremony and about 150 faculty showed up to cheer the students on. I was a faculty marshall, meaning I was responsible for helping to direct and seat about 450 students that graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of which the Biology Department belongs. Attending graduation is a great reminder of why I like to teach. It is great to see students graduate and look so happy. Normally when I see them, they looked stressed out. Nearly all of our students work outside jobs and have family committments. The student in the picture below worked and has a young daughter. As faculty, we are very proud of our students and feel like they truly earned their diplomas.
My master's student Kazu graduated (he is in the above picture). Kazu is from Japan and he is about to return home to earn his Ph.D. Kazu will be remembered as my hardest working and most productive student and the coolest student. As a graduation gift I took to see Iggy Pop and the Stooges and he was SO happy because he didn't have any money left to buy a ticket.
The student below called me her favorite professor. I was very honored by that. She was a student in my human physiology class and hopes to attend medical school next year.
This is the view from my seat with the students:
In the background is our student union which was at one time a brewery. The graduation party, including many faculty, the provost and the CU president were up there facing the hot sun.
--Mike--
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