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My family (parents, sister Lindsey and myself) at graduation. Charley
took this picture for me.
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The entire clan, including my aunt and her family, my family, and my
grandparents. From left to right: My cousin Claire, uncle Brian,
cousin Eric, aunt Ann, me, my mother, father, and grandmother and
grandfather (my dad's parents).
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From left to right, Jordan,
Charley, and
myself. I've known both of them since all three of us worked together at
ACE computer
camp in the summer of 1998. Luckily Jordan lives nearby and also worked
at ACE in the summer of 1999 as well, so I got to see more of him... he's
one of the most mature guys I know for his age, it's quite impressive.
Both he and Charley made it to my graduation, which made me very happy
:)... Charley's arrival was a *complete* surprise, since he drove up from
Florida without telling me. He and Jordan gave me a neat photo-album book
our our last summer together.
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My friend Jeff
Mowery and I at my graduation, which he came to (which also made me very
happy). Jeff is a staunch christian, and a very nice guy.
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From left to right, Sarah Zimov, Miriam Kulkarni, Anneke Hackman (me) and
Cat (Catherine) Lyon. Cat is holding a sign from our thesis-burning party
(see an explanation with flames below) which reads
something like "Here lie the cremated ashes of 8 seniors' theses offered
to Pallas Athena at the end of the millennium," and is signed by eight of
us: Sarah, Miriam, myself, Cat, Tracey Sorens, Rachel Kaplan, Maralee La
Barge, and Jen Furia.
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After how much EVIL STRESS we had gone through these last four years,
eight of us went to Rachel's house for a much-needed Thesis-Burning
Slumber Party. Boy, did it feel good. *aaaahhh* (Of course, I hadn't
written a thesis (not required for german majors) but I had enough large
papers and almost double the 300-level classes required, so....) We ate
way too many chips and too much dip, and mixed drinks (I made the kaluah
milkshakes) and made fruit salad and the like (okay, so we're weird...I
believe Jen and Sarah had kaluah on the fruit salad for breakfast..blech).
Using fingerpaints, we wrote stress-inducing (names of professors,
classes, papers, topics, etc.) words pages of drafts from our theses or
papers and then tossed them in the fire..."THIS one is for all the
professors who made me write massive papers on THEIR specialty in the
field"...."and THIS page is for Prof. X---, who gave me a day for the
revision..of my THESIS..." and so on. Watching the flames eat away at the
paper as the words stood out was quite satisfying. *snicker* We also
roasted marshmallows over the flames, and finally, sang a greek song
around the grill as a sort of moment of closure at the end. I think it
was a /great/ idea and a fitting end after all of our hard work, and would
make a fabulous new Bryn Mawr tradition.
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The remaining ashes left over the morning after our thesis-burning party
(see the previous photo/explanation). I collected a container full of
charred paper remains and ash, which we (as the above photo
indicates) then presented to the statue of the Goddess Athena, a
such offerings being a long-standing Bryn Mawr tradition.
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