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June 1, 2005

No More Pencils, No More Books

I'm done with graduate school!

Jo and I delivered our final project in Database Marketing this morning, which officially exhausted all my scholastic requirements under the MBA program. My afternoon was spent selling a few books back to the bookstore, picking up graduation paraphernalia (cap n' gown), having lunch, and making a phone call or two.

The afternoon brought my final class (New Product Development) in which I had no obligations (other than not being an asshat while my classmates ran through their final projects). A few seconds ago, the last preso wrapped.

... and it all ended.

So, yeah. Graduation is 10 days from now, but that's a formality (admittedly, a "formality" where I have to talk in front of 500 people, but...). All that matters is that I pass all my classes with a 2.7 or better. (And I could be skeptical about my grades, but I strongly suspect that they're not a problem.)

A bookend: in August of 2002, I took a week-long motorcycle trip with my father. We rode the width of Washington, stopping at the Grand Coulee Dam and at a small plot of land where he was building a house in Spokane. We headed down into Idaho (yes, we rode coasters at Silverwood), and Eastern Oregon. I had a lot of time to think on that trip, and good company to talk to.

It was then that I figured out business school was something I, really, really wanted to do.

Fast-forward 33 months. Summer of 2005 is here.
The weather is beautiful.
It's over.

(Thanks, Dad.)

Posted by Gavin Shearer at June 1, 2005 4:59 PM. Posted to UW MBA.

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