Master McGee

It is finally official! At about 11 am on May 14th, 2009, I passed my thesis defense (with revisions of course). I am now done with school for a long while. You can all now call me Master McGee, I will even accept Master Magoo.

I thought that the thesis defense was going to be super hard, but I was pleasantly surprised. Reasons: I wrote my thesis really well so there were not that many questions, my professors really liked me, or they were really busy and didn't have a lot of time to ask questions. Even though they may have not peppered me with questions, they did provide some good input so I can go back and make my thesis that much more credible.

I cannot tell you how satisfying the feeling was when they told me that I had passed. I drank, ate, and dreamt my thesis for about the last two months. The picture below was me just goofing off and enjoying the moment:)

This semester was a lot of fun for me. My classes were really small. I had one class that there was only one other student and another with a total of three! We all got along well, so that was a lot of fun. One picture below is the three of us studying for our advanced traffic engineering class and the other is my last FINAL EVER! As I walked out, I wanted to get a picture of the other two still working hard:)
Another cool thing was that our entire apartment got to walk for graduation. (I am the only one that didn't officially graduate this April, because of my thesis).


So what am I up to now? Just finishing the small revisions on my thesis. A week from the defense I should be all done with school. I will then finish preparing for Europe and then just get ready to go to Exxon.

Here are a few more pictures from graduation:)