{"id":4760,"date":"2010-06-13T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/13\/graduation-day-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-06-13T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T13:25:32","slug":"graduation-day-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/13\/graduation-day-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Day 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A grey and dreary day here in Schenectady for the 216th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/N\/DS\/edition_display.php?e=latest&#038;p=2\">Commencement at Union College<\/a>. This is probably healthier for the graduates than the years when it&#8217;s sunny and hot and people pass out in their seats, but it isn&#8217;t the most pleasant send-off. Then again, my own college graduation was a grey and dismal day, and that&#8217;s worked out all right.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s class of Physics majors was small, but stellar. We only had four majors, but every one of them graduated with both departmental honors (for doing thesis research) and Latin honors ([<i>superlative<\/i>] <i>cum laude<\/i>), and those honors were well deserved. Things have never worked better&#8211; in my lab, in the Department, in the student-run outreach activities&#8211; than they have when this class was involved. The College will be a different place without them.<\/p>\n<p>So, congratulations to Brandon, Alex, Ben, and Shivani (and also to Dillon, Frank, and Elliott, this year&#8217;s minors). It&#8217;s been fantastic having you all around for the last four years, and I wish you all the very best in your future endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grey and dreary day here in Schenectady for the 216th Commencement at Union College. This is probably healthier for the graduates than the years when it&#8217;s sunny and hot and people pass out in their seats, but it isn&#8217;t the most pleasant send-off. Then again, my own college graduation was a grey and dismal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/13\/graduation-day-2010\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graduation Day 2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-personal","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}