Thursday, August 7, 2008

Sunday - Graduation

On Sunday August 3, 2008 I finally graduated with my masters!! Like Mike said the ceremony was short, but I am so thankful to be finished especially with the push at the end to get everything done before Juliana arrived! A thesis, an internship, a 15 page case study, an e-portfolio with 40+ standards to meet...it sure was an adventure!

Even if I didn't win an award I am still pretty proud of my thesis. It was about the relationship between mathematics achievement on standardized exams and pull-out instrumental music instruction programs in elementary school! Believe it or not the students who received instrumental music instruction scored higher in the overall scores and all sub categories (though there were a few that didn't have statistical significance). Mike really helped me figure out all the statistics and of course he was so supportive!!!

It was so nice to have everyone at graduation (Mom, Dad, Becky, Juliana, Mike, Steve and Catherine)! They were so great to come and support me and I know everyone is proud of me too! After graduation we went to Bonefish Grill to celebrate! The food and service were really good! I would definitely recommend it! It's a step above a Ruby Tuesday or a TGI Friday, but a step below some of the fancier places. We had the baby there and she was great! She sure has been a lot of places for being less than 2 weeks old!

Mike edit:
Man it was hard taking pictures in that place. Here's a few, But no idea how they'll look!
I really wish the last one was in focus because I got them in the process of hooding Tina!



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