{"id":77536,"date":"2021-05-22T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=77536"},"modified":"2021-05-23T22:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T02:28:27","slug":"saturday-night-delayed-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2021\/05\/22\/saturday-night-delayed-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night (delayed) &#8211; Graduation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I had a great Hunter today I&#8217;ve been the commencement speaker for the PhD graduates of Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s electrical and computer engineer in department. As I was about to begin speaking I realized it was the 30th anniversary of my own PhD there and that I have never really been to the official commencement. We have had to come back to Vermont\u2026 And \ufffcDiane had arranged\ufffc For a surprise party for me in the park\u2026 She put on my bathroom and made a mortar board\ufffc And we had our own ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This was my first official ceremony\u2026 And it was great to see you were about 21 new PhD&#8217;s from a department where I am now on the advisory board. There is so many great projects and so much hope and optimism after such a tough year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77535\" width=\"2912\" height=\"1712\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 2912w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 1536w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 2048w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.40.04-pm.png 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77533\" width=\"2824\" height=\"1624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 2824w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 1536w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 2048w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.34.24-pm.png 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77534\" width=\"2912\" height=\"1712\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 2912w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 1024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 150w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 1536w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 2048w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/screen-shot-2021-05-22-at-5.25.03-pm.png 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/>\ufffc<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was so proud to be part of it\ufffc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great Hunter today I&#8217;ve been the commencement speaker for the PhD graduates of Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s electrical and computer engineer in department. As I was about to begin speaking I realized it was the 30th anniversary of my own PhD there and that I have never really been to the official commencement. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2021\/05\/22\/saturday-night-delayed-graduation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night (delayed) &#8211; Graduation!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77537,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77536\/revisions\/77537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}