leading me up the platform to the Dean, taking over from the person whose turn it was initially to lead me. Her critiques and emotional support have been vital over the year.
I think for the first time � the student speaker on behalf of graduate students (from all schools � Harvard law, Harvard MBA, Harvard Govt,
She was great (now going to be Asst. Prof at Michigan State Univ. )All our
Thankfully the rain had stopped right at 6am � just before we gathered at 7am for the �Walk�
In the confusion I had forgotten to shave (I had shaved two days ago only)and also to bring the children�s book (on Sharks) to wave at the ceremony. I borrowed one on Dogs from a doctoral student (now I have to return it)The Business School were waving countries flags �many with Indian and US flags as well. Govt and Law school having inflated football shaped balloons with the globe on them�which they threw up in the air , whenever their group was named. (photo: http://www.harvard.edu/) We waved our books and shrieked and stood up when Dorinda came to speak or when we were granted the diploma by President Summers. The student-teachers showed their international awareness by waving children�s books on exotic animals �Cheetahs, Leopards etc �not found in US.
The
The only hitch was when Summers mike did not work �for a few moments � when he spoke to award Diplomas to undergraduate students in his serious tone �the way it has been said for 368 years at Harvard before this time. For the first time I saw men in tall black, shiny hats of Sherlock Holmes era and frock coats �to further the age old tradition. I read that in the beginning the ceremony took place at the beginning of the school year to welcome them �only many years later it was shifted the end of the year � to celebrate graduation.
It still beats me however�as to how ALL students who survived till the end of the final semester were assumed to be able to graduate �since till the very end noone told us our grades. We all dressed up and �walked� on the assumption that we would all graduate. Perhaps, it was due to the efforts our Teaching Fellows who warned us and helped us improve if we had made a mess in any one of our papers � rather than just failing us.
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