Commencement
Last Friday was commencement at Caltech. It was interesting; I got to teach a lot of the students that graduated, and it was really fun to see how excited they were to graduate. And, unlike my graduation, the skies didn’t open up and pour down rain on the ceremony, even though it threatened to for much of the morning.
Commencement also marks the day that I started this job; my first day of work was the Monday after commencement last year. So, now I have gotten one year under my belt!
People are always curious what I am going to do for the summer, and the answer is simply “More work!” I am a full-time staff employee, and there is a lot of work to do to prepare for next year, both on the coursework and on various other infrastructure-type tasks. So certainly I will have my hands full over the summer.
But boy it’ll be nice to have a normal five-day work week, with 8 hour days instead of 12 hour days. That I am looking forward to. No 10PM lectures or weekend grading for three months!