This is my third year at Michigan Tech and this is my second time to take part in the commencement ceremony.
2016
First year to attend the ceremony felt exciting. I was invited by my friend X. Because every graduate has two tickets to invite their friends or family to watch the ceremony in the field. This limits the opportunity. It was glad to see every graduate walk on the board and accept the ceremony. But for the watchers, it took so long to observe the ceremony ends, barely more than three hours.
2017
This year I didn't attend the ceremony. One reason was I didn't have a ticket to access to the ceremony; the other big reason, I felt it was so boring just sitting there for three hours. But I went the SDC to take pictures after the ceremony. My friend and my skiing coach graduated that year. It was pity that I can not enjoy the skiing at Mont Ripely during season 2018.
2018
This year I have potential two tickets, because some of my friends graduate this year. I also want to take some pictures use a borrowed lens, Nikon 70-300 mm. I didn't use too many long-focus lens, because most time I took landscape pictures. I prefer to have a wider vision. Take a chance to test a long-focus lens is a good try. A long-focus lens can zoom in the objects, looks like pulling the object close to you. In this way, I can have a focus for each picture, such as one friend in the middle of the picture, and his background is not so noise. But the drawback may be the aperture is a little to small, making the shooting time longer, and blurring many pictures.
One of my friends, H, he is graduating this time. You can call him the best singer in civil engineering. He can sing songs very well. He also has a legend story to pursue his degree. He was as a PhD student applied to MTU. He spent lots of time on his research. He may leave his office at midnight and struggle in his research. I think he tried and learned. Suddenly, he decided to work and changed his plan. At least, he graduated as a master student. Everyone has his own feature. It is not necessary for everybody to have a PhD degree. You may do something else better, rather than just for a degree.
I also watched some of my students. They took my lab course last spring. They are smart and taught me how to communicate smoothly.
Best wishes to every graduate!
Go Huskies!
