Graduation

Well, it's official. Cornell let me graduate. It feels really good to be done. Being here has been a great experience and a difficult trial at times. A lot of things have happened during my time here. I had the opportunity to meet many people who I will miss greatly.

First of all, I need to thank Lexi for supporting me throughout all of this. I dragged her across the country to live in Ithaca. She has also been my sugar mama for the past year, working at a job that can be frustrating at times. Thanks for standing by me and seeing my potential.


My parents made the trek out here to be a part of graduation. Thanks again for coming, Mom and Dad. Your example growing up helped me set the expectation to pursue my education.

Commencement was awesome. When I graduated from BYU the commencement ceremony was kind of long and boring. But Cornell's commencement was a lot of fun. The PhD students have really cool robes. You can see a couple of them in the red robes in this picture. The faculty all wore their regalia from their respective schools. I sat right across the aisle from them, so it was neat to try to guess which schools they represented.

I'm not a hard-core Cornellian by any means, but I started to feel some school pride at graduation. I don't think I'll shed too many tears about leaving Ithaca, but something about the Big Red got a hold of me while I was here.