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« on: May 25, 2010, 11:25:48 PM »

http://www.msoe.edu/life_at_msoe/current_student_resources/student_resources/commencement/live.shtml
LIVE WEBCAST OF COMMENCEMENT
Saturday, 5/29/10 @ 10am


This is a link to her graduation ceremony to be done live.
I will be there watching her graduate.

She will have a major in Biomedical Engineering and a Minor in Marketing.
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« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2010, 11:55:39 PM »
Copngratulations to Maria ( and Katherine and Victor) You must be so proud.
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2010, 04:40:36 AM »
Congratulations Kitkatz!

Looks like a good pairing of major/minor. This way she can afford to take care of the parents in style in the future  8)

Are you traveling to the graduation?
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2010, 05:42:12 AM »
Congratulations to Maria and all best wishes for a successful, satisfying and meaningful career.   :flower;
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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2010, 06:38:19 AM »
 :bandance; :bandance; :bandance;
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2010, 11:21:13 AM »
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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2010, 10:40:19 PM »
 :clap; Well done Maria!! Hey Kitkatz, hope you post some photos!  :pics;
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2010, 03:10:23 PM »
This is awesome news. Bet you are Proud as can be.
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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2010, 12:41:14 PM »
Victor and I had a load of fun seeing Maria graduate. . I left on Thursday morning from Ontario airport and arrived around 3 in the afternoon. Shelly, Maria and Victor greeted me at the airport and we went to the hotel and I unpacked. Then we went to the Thai Restaurant and acted like the retarded Californians were there.  Lordy, it was funny.

Friday we did breakfast, and saw the Senior Design Show.  Maria's team project was a device used to find pins in people arms and legs.  It did actually work.  Everyone we talked to from her Boss to her Professors thought a lot of Maria and her attitude toward school and life in general.  Her boss at MSOE is going to miss her a lot!  I went to dialysis at 4pm. Maria and Dad and Shelly went to the Senior Reception in the CC and to dinner with some of Maria's friends. Dialysis was okay until the last hour.  I came back to the hotel and cried myself to sleep and took a Tylenol with Codeine. Luckily I can sleep it off.

Saturday we had breakfast with the girls, then we went over to the Milwaukee Art Museum Park area where Maria and her friends took pictures.  I will post the pics on Facebook when I get time and if Facebook cooperates. Then we went to the the Kern center and waited for graduation ceremony to begin.  What fun watching the people.  Over 4000 people attended they said.  Over 400 graduates, the largest class in 107 years of MSOE. I have blurry pics but some turned out pretty good.  I cried at the end of the ceremony.  We were off the lunch after the ceremony.  We ran to the hotel and I changed out of the decorative clothes I had on. The shoes had to go. We ate Italian food at Buca's.  It was a sad time afterward when Maria said Goodbye to her friends.  Everyone cried. She has made some lifelong friends at MSOE.  Then we went back to the hotel. 

Sunday we went to the Milwaukee used bookstores and of course spent money!  Monday I flew back.

Graduations are bittersweet the ending of one part of your life, the beginning of a new part. 


Maria has since moved to Oklahoma to begin her after graduation life. She has an interview there with an insurance company in a few days. We gifted her a car for graduation and I am updating her phone to an I-Phone or such thing.  She is staying with her best friend since forever in Oklahoma. 

I am home and back on line as you all can see.

The pics: 
#1 : Milwaukee out the hotel window. The building in the back is the Library.
#2: Maria's Design Team
#3: The project
#4: Victor and I
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2010, 12:47:00 PM »
Graduation Pics

Pic #1: Maria and Erin the graduates
Pic #2: Maria and her friends.
Pic #3: Maria and friends again
Pic #4: Me, Maria and Victor
Pic #5 : Happiness is being graduated!
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Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5

Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
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« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2010, 01:41:46 PM »
 :clap; :clap; :clap;
Thanks - she looks great - looks like you had nice weather too. YAY MARIA!!  :yahoo;
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New kidney in a paired donation swap July 26, 2017.
Her story ---> https://www.facebook.com/WantedKidneyDonor
Please watch her video: http://youtu.be/D9ZuVJ_s80Y
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« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2010, 03:35:17 PM »
Congratulations to all of you.  What a great day for you.  Maria is going to have a wonderful life, thanks to her marvelous Mom and Dad.
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« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2010, 08:49:20 PM »
Don't you all look proud.  That's a nice outfit you were wearing. 
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« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2010, 12:22:41 AM »
Wonderful!  Thanks for sharing it with us.  I love that pict of you and Victor.
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« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2010, 12:21:42 AM »
Great pics Kit. Maria is so very young and pretty, Victor is quite handsome and you look sooo much better. I like your hair. Good job!!!  :thumbup;
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