I didn't think the day would ever come (at least I hoped it wouldn't) that Bryant graduated from NYU in their Taxation LLM program.
I think I've posted about it before, but NYU is the number one law school in the country for Tax Law. If you don't believe me, check the rankings here.
The world's longest graduation ceremony (seriously--FOUR HOURS) was held at the theater at Madison Square Garden on May 22nd.
The ceremony was actually really good. The speakers did an excellent job and the President of the University was hilarious and really fun to listen to. He actually had his daughter graduating that day, which made most of the audience say, "Awwwww!" when he told us.
I found Bryant in the program, so I guess he actually made it!
You thought I was exaggerating about the four hour thing?
NO.
10:30 AM-2:30 PM
Just ask Garrett:
The school had about 400 people graduating with their JD, then about 400 graduating with their LLM.
(I've had a lot of people ask me what the difference is: A Juris Doctorate is a typical three year law degree. A LLM is a Masters of Law in a particular area--Taxation, International, Corporate, etc. I guess the best way to think of it is like going to dental school, then going to one more year of school to become an orthodontist.)
To make the ceremony even more unbearable, if a graduate had received a scholarship then they had a person representing the scholarship donor do the hooding. It took FOREVER.
THEN they had graduates who were Legacy students have their family member do the hooding.
That's all well and good if their parent/grandparent/sibling graduated, but when we started getting into the cousins/in-laws/step-siblings, that's where I drew the line.
But at the 3.5 hour mark, they finally made it to Bryant!!
Here he is shaking the Law School Dean's hand
(Every time I hear this song now I get SUPER sad and miss New York a lot!)
Look at that little Scholar!
(and his goofy hat that he HATED)
We were all starving to death, so we went to Madison Square Park for our celebratory lunch at Shake Shack
That afternoon there was a reception being held at the law school at Washington Square Park, so we headed down there after eating.
I'm incredibly proud of my little guy!
That night we got tickets to see Les Miserables on Broadway.
The theater was super tiny, and had one little bathroom for the entire place.
Since we were in Times Square (where happiness goes to die) we opted for Junior's Cheesecake.
Once I had my Egg Cream to drink and my Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake, all was right in the world.
Congratulations again to Bryant on his amazing accomplishment!
(I'm super proud of you!)
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