Newly Minted Graduate

[zen_monk]

January 22nd was the day of my graduation and it was great. It was also super fancy, as is London’s wont, where not one but two scepters were brought in to mark the beginning and end of a ceremony, each carried by student reps. Many Deans and school officials wore fancy dress in the style of Tudor noblemen, which included slashed puffy sleeves and floofy hats, and the president was even a “Lord President Dr. so and so.”

Also I wore jeans and a turtleneck under my gown thinking the gown would cover it. It did not. Also was told after the ceremony that jeans were a no-no in the dress code that I should have read. I also had to shake the president’s hand when my name is called for my diploma, so I sped walked really fast for it which shocked a lot of people.

Saw most of my classmates there, many have flown in from where they had gone home. Saw the one person who had disrupted the whole program and whose behavior (in spite of being a grade A Adult) have totally despaired the whole class and teachers with her mistreatment of multiple people and inappropriate comments. I even had my own slight drama with her, but it was nothing compared to what her groupmates had endured.

But anywho, I got my diploma and I was able to go to Florence for a post-grad travel vacation with my parents. Which was almost cut short (or elongated) because my dad got a retinal detachment on the second day there, which meant he flew out of Florence directly back to LA for treatment, leaving me and mom to worry over him in our hotel room. 

Also, I did not get that job at a film production company. But i did get an interview with Archtype Publications/IAP for an administrative position that is a PAID INTERNSHIP. Fingers crossed for that one.

Comments

[sarasa_cat]

Congrats! Fingers crossed for an offer of a paid internship and best wishes for your father's speedy recovery.

[zen_monk]

Thanks a lot, fingers crossed for many things in the future. Dad’s doing all right now, and right now relaxing with many hours on Persona 5.

[mako_lies]

Congrats~! Good luck on the internship!

[zen_monk]

Just seeing the two words ‘paid” and “internship” is simply a magical thing to hope for T_T

[lassarina]

Hoping for good things from the interview! Congrats on graduation :)

[zen_monk]

Thanks! Hopefully this would yield in something, but I’ll just have to keep up the energy in this job market so that I can get quite a few interviews. But man, this publishing job market...