First bunch of the grad photos

[katsaris]

Yeah, I've been lazy to order them, lazy to go get them, lazy to scan them, and lazy to post them. *g* Such laziness has been compounded by the fact that I look fat and stupid in several of them. Which would make me want to have this be a private post, but that'd mean I'd have to then send the photos to friends without lj accounts separately -- and am too lazy to do that also. ;-)

Anyway: Here they are finally: graduation photos. Six of them anyway. There are five more, coming tomorrow.

Comments

Spiffy robes!

[(Anonymous)]

Much nicer looking than the ones that were handed out to graduate students at my school. We had a plain black robe, a red stole and no headgear. To look elegant one would have had to buy an expensive set.

Perhaps I should look upon that sloppy outfit as more representative of the sloppy clothes many of us wore (esp. in winter) as students.

What are the graduates doing in the 1st photo? Is that part of the oath-taking? My other guess would be conducting...

Songster (Congratulations again!)

Re: Spiffy robes!

[katsaris.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the couple days' delay to respond.

As for the first photo: Joining together the thumb, index finger and middle finger, is how the Eastern Orthodox (or atleast the Greek Orthodox, but I think it extends to the whole of the Eastern Orthodox church) hold their right hand when crossing themselves. The three fingers symbolize the Trinity.

More rarely it's seen in occasion of such oaths, where it's the equivalent of the raised hand in America. It's less often seen than the raised hand.

When I took my B.Sc. degree a couple years back they instructed us to hold our right hand up with either the three fingers joined or just a straight palm -- IIRC there was a good number which chose the straight palm instead of the more religious "three fingers". Anyway this year they didn't give instructions (I suppose they assumed we all remembered from last time :-) so it seems most everyone followed what most everyone else is doing. So all I saw were the three fingers.

Except mine, which isn't seen clearly in the photo, but like a good agnostic I simply raised it. :-)