Finally Done

I did it!  After 3 long years of part time school I finally graduated with my Master of Science in Applied Mathematics.  WAAHOOOO!

Would you believe no one brought a proper camera?  My mother (of all people) couldn't find her camera when we left early this morning.  My friends assumed my mom would have her camera so we only have cell phone photos.  Thank goodness for cell phones!  My dad managed to snag a short video of me receiving my diploma.

I did not attend the huge UW ceremony with 12,000 other graduates, instead it was a small department celebration with about 200 people.  As usual it was memorable.  While our Graduate Program Advisor was calling names mine was accidentally skipped.  After the last one I had to raise my hand and inform him he skipped me.  It was all pretty funny.  Turns out 2 others got skipped as well.  It made me laugh.

Here are a few pictures from my mom's iPhone of the festivities today.  Most of my family live far and could not attend, however my parents came along with my sister Sandie and her son.

My apologies for the silly looking pictures. I have this super awesome nephew, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-Online, whose father has insisted no pictures should appear on the internet.

A few of my good friends came to celebrate with me.  Thanks for coming!

The faculty and masters students from the Applied Math department.

For those who may not have received an announcement from me (I had a limited number of them) you can see one below.  A big thanks to my friend Tasha for doing the pictures for me!  Well, she did all of them except for the one of my feet, I admit I did that one all by myself.  

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