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I graduated last night--Read a poem to ab. 100 people I didn't know and a few people I did know, received a diploma and tossed my cap.
My Senior Portfolio Presentation is this Friday--I will be presenting what there is of my cookbook so far (Mackenzie and I got an offer from an upstarting independent publisher, and are composing a query letter to send out to several other potential publishers) and several paper cuts that I've done in the past couple of months. We also had a service portion that I completed by scrubbing floors, organizing libraries, cleaning, and moving with the school, and an internship requirement that I fulfilled by prepping and teaching for over 25 hours--English lessons to the youngin's and a few hours of teaching test prep to the underclassmen.
I will try to post photos of both fairly soon.
In other news, my job at Lon's is going fair but not well. He is being a little stingier with my raise than he had implied, and there have been a few odd conflicts between managers and my coworkers. But it looks like everything is going to work out anyhow with funding tuition next year, and I just spent the night sketching out a tentative class schedule for next year (Mathematic methods for Econ or Intro to Comparative Politics; Intro to Computer Programming in either C or Java; Hindi/Urdu or Arabic; and for my required First Year Foundation course, either "Philosophy of Love"--which I'm not that into, but which my mom is rooting for, and which might be redeemed by readings by Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Chekhov (I've always been fascinated by Russian literature) and by Sophocles, Plato, Euripides, Confucius, Freud, and readings from the Bible--or "Ethnicity and Social Transformation, with readings by Malamud, Philip Roth, Cristina Garcia, Julia Alvarez, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Toni Morrison (my favorite author), and others.)
If you made it through that tentative class schedule, I am very proud of you. I'm pretty intimidated by it myself, and I just spent hours reading through advice from professors and students at Barnard, explanations of graduation requirements, and course descriptions. More than intimidated, though, I am ecstatic. The professors and course offerings at Barnard all seem so fascinating that I was tempted to try a full--18 credit--schedule next semester. It is strongly discouraged, though, for incoming freshmen, so I managed to cut it down.
There is also a program for incoming freshmen the week before Orientation that I am planning on applying for--Columbia Urban Experience--that is only $300 for a week of accommodations and activities in the city--including social activities such as Latin Dancing and a walking tour on the Brooklyn Bridge, and community service activities such as teaching classes at the Harlem YMCA and hand delivering meals from the "God's Love We Deliver" program to disadvantaged New York residents with HIV, AIDS, and other chronic illnesses.