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After all my sagas with higher education, I have finally been taken up by a school! I am going to Columbia in January! Yay me!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats and WELCOME TO THE IVY LEAGUE!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations. Does this mean you leave the HMS incompetancy for Mathematics?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Nice one, Ally.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

congratulations ally!

― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Well done! bloody students, ahem.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Cool.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

hip hip hooray for ally! on her magical going to the ivy league day!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, Ally? Would you mind emailing me about how you accomplished this? If I recall, we've had slightly similar past experiences with school, and I'd love to know how you made this possible.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally that rox, and so du u

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

ally. i am red with jelously.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

No Anthony, you're read jealously.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh awesome, Ally! Uptown Power!!!

Are you doing the CU General Studies thing?

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Woohoo! Kick ass and take names! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, you're my hero all over again.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats, Ally! Well done! What are you studying?

(Obviously if you were an English student it would be another matter, bloody taxes etc.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay Ally! (Sarah Lawrence narrowly escpaes the *maelstrom* that is Ally entering their placid environment!) And yay for us! We get to keep Ally in NYC! But how are we gonna hook up with all that HOT Bronxville Action that bnw was telling us about?

Melissa: Have you considered applying to Sarah Lawrence?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah Lawrence doesn't accept students with GEDs.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh bummer. How to hook up with the HOT BRONXVILLE ACTION (oh no! googlers!) then?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Way to go !
I almost went to Columbia, the campus is great and so many opportunities, I could not face moving to NYC and then being totally broke there, so I'm here at Brown instead. Graduate or undergraduate? What are you going to study ?

― daria g, Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

keep ya eyes on her Ba-ronx-a Onx Onx
take her thong off and her ass go BOOM

Daria, do you know the Brown handshake?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

EW.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I have heard a great deal about so-called Brownian motion.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Daria: is Providence the hotbed of radicalism and cute design students I imagine it to be? If so, I'd like to hear more about this Brownian motion.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Glückwünsche Sie rote heiße Ivy League Mutter! Ausgezeichnete Nachrichten!

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats, Ally! Stop by the J-School office and say hi to me next time you're up here.

― Douglas, Thursday, 5 December 2002 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

congratulations ally! that's terrific.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 5 December 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

What Arthur said, but in Russian. Congrats, Ms. K.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 December 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Sarah Lawrence doesn't accept students with GEDs.

Melissa, I'm going to email you once I get home from work but I know this isn't necessarily true, at least not recently - I went for an interview at SLC and they were very keen on me, and that's all I have too. Tho maybe for the transfer program it's different? When was the lsat time you looked into it? Never mind I shall email you shortly.

Everyone thank you for your nice thoughts, I am going to be an undergraduate. I study EUROPEAN MATTERS. I am going to be an AMBASSADOR. Or a DICTATOR.

Mary: We just go up to Bronxville, a friend of mine lives near there, we'll just crash his pad. I'm sure his wife and kids will be excited for this too. I know he will, he's a superfreak.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 5 December 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Way to go, Idaho. Congrats.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 5 December 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

go smarty-pants! Bogota is beautiful this time of year!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 December 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

European Matters sounds pretty broad, Ally!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 December 2002 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"We just go up to Bronxville, a friend of mine lives near there, we'll just crash his pad."

Will the fun never end??

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 5 December 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Way to go, Ms. Ally. You probably won't have as many green haired lesbians like at SLC, but at least the commute will be easier.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a good thing.

― J (Jay), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow. Congratulations.

― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey that IS awesome. Count me amongst the seriously jealous. How are you managing to fund it?

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Shouldn't that be "Everyone congratulate me, please", young lady?

― Aimless, Friday, 6 December 2002 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay, Ally!!!

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations. Forget the ambassador and go straight to dictatorship.

― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

yay for Ally! what small unstable European country are you going to invade first?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no idea how I am funding it! I'm thinking of street performances.

I'm going to invade ENGLAND.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 6 December 2002 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

congratulations ally!

― ron (ron), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to invade ENGLAND.

Be sure to bring that crazy foreign concept of public transport with you.

― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally was it your gangster walk or your gangster talk that did it?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 6 December 2002 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats Ally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so proud - you're entering the hallowed halls of undergrad ed just as i'm exiting them!!!

oh and pardon my ignorance, but what is SLC

― Vic, Friday, 6 December 2002 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer whatever it is, they love it and they just won't let me be.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

WOOHOO! Congratulations Ally!

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Well done Ally - hope you have lots of fun!

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

SLC = Sarah Lawrence College, where bnw learned how to be a poet, and Mary wants to learn how to, um, pick up poets, and um, fiction writers, and well, let's not be exclusionary... It is in a gated community a bit north of NYC proper. A very genteel former all girl's school (bnw was in bnw heaven) and can't you just see how Miss Ally would be perfect for their severed ranks.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 6 December 2002 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations, Ally! This means a lot. You should be proud. It sounds like you enjoyed it, too.

― youn, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

congratzinger, ally!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Alright, people, we've got pronoun confusion, a penis, Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger, and photographs. You have ten minutes to fashion at least three of these items into either a joke or a bong.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

(And congrats, Ally! I'll be joining you in October. And Friday.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Or both? (xpost) (well, not really an xpost now)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations! Great diploma pics!

Maybe it's the lighting or the camera angle, but that doesn't look like a very colourful diploma. You'd think that Columbia would snazz the thing up after all that hard work. At least the seal should be a bit colourful.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

CONGRATS TO MY FAVORITE IVY LEAGUE SNOTNOSE!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though, can someone tell me the "rights, privleges and immunities thereunto appertaining" to this? This diploma sounds like it's bestowing upon me superhero powers, but I don't feel like I've received any immunity yet.

xpost IT'S NOT AT ALL COLORFUL

also: HEY there are some NYers on this thread whose emails I didn't have but want to invite: if you are a NYer reading this and you are free Friday from 8pm onwards, come to the Ding Dong Lounge where we will be having drinks and FREE PIZZA. Hopefully my mom will get trashed again and will chase around pigeons and dogs and people, calling them "shooshies".

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it sounds your diploma is suing you.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

your dad is the love child of Ian McShane and Luke Wilson??
and congratulations!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

so, when do you go back to millenium?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Whoa you are now the second person who compared my dad to Luke Wilson.

xpost I JUST TEXTED YOU I THINK IT GRANTS ME IMMUNITY FROM MILLENNIUM. IT SAYS SO ON THE ~~LAWSUIT~~DIPLOMA

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

instead of "rights, privleges and immunities thereunto appertaining," it should say "HOT, LEGAL, AND READY."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

HAHA, how sweet would that be? Being handed a subpoena instead of your diploma during a graduation ceremony!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

true story: at my law school graduating ceremony, the students who owed the school money for whatever or who owed books to the library had bills inserted w/ their diplomas!

(rutgers, what a class operation)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Tad, that sounds utterly brilliant!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

(i think that i just gave ned ideas for how to handle deadbeat UC library patrons)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Let me echo Sarah's sentiments and let me play Al Pacino on this auspicious day, Ally, and wish you a heartfelt WHO-HAAA!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Surely they were lucky to get diplomas at all, Tad! I never actually got my undergrad diploma for like three years, due to a missing library book and a fine that didn't seem entirely worth paying once I'd already gotten a job. And come fall, Columbia won't be giving me anything unless I've caught up on some rent.

― nabiscothingy (nory), Thursday, 19 May 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm extremely happy for you, Ally. I didn't go to my graduation either, mostly because I didn't want to deal with people saying shit like "how the fuck did YOU graduate? You were never here!"

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

I think I got up around 5:30 AM (after going to bed like 2 hours earlier) to convene in a dark room filled with secret society types and bottles of champagne to be passed out to the class. During the very hot, mostly boring, relatively short, but conspiratorially fun ceremony, I gazed up at Kofi Annan and Lauren Bacall.

I skipped the law school one.

(congrats Ally!)

http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/students/graduation2003/images/2003graduation2.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 19 May 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

When I graduated, they had somehow lost my diploma and didn't figure it out until I was walking across the stage to receive it in my cap and gown, and they were like "mutter mutter we're very sorry, we can't find it" and I did a big Don Knotts/Jim Carrey thing, like all "DOUBLE YOU TEE EFF, D00ds??!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 May 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Ally, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GRADUASHEEON!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 May 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Congrats! There's a small chance that when I went to my backwoods Ivy graduation I, uh, cried and stuff. But that probably had a lot to do with the fact that I had to go to work but a few hours afterwards and had spent the entirety of the previous night sitting on the porch drinking beers with an enormous Shaved Bear.

(I bet you $5 I spelled 'entirety' wrong.)

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 19 May 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

(i think that i just gave ned ideas for how to handle deadbeat UC library patrons)

Very good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

OK seriously, giboyeux, the words "sitting on the porch drinking beers with an enormous shaved bear" are almost as good a graduation gift as the present I got. That is fantastic.

gabbneb, you were lucky if yr ceremony was short! The one today seemed endless, it definitely went significantly longer than it was supposed to, we ended up just saying fuck it and stopped waiting and just crashed the diploma handing out building and stole their booze. I mean good lord.

Best part though, was that it sounded rather significantly like the engineering students were chanting "FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU!" when they were mentioned. My dad is still holding out hope that they were actually chanting "FUCK YOU." Former engineer tough guy solidarity in da house?

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

WORST part: when realization happens that they misplaced my diploma but they know exactly where it is (?? Which doesn't really sound like "misplacing" but, uh, whatever), the woman was like, "Do you want us to go get it for you?"

NO, PLEASE, KEEP IT, IT IS MY GIFT TO YOU. YOU MAY HAVE MY IMMUNITIES.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

we ended up just saying fuck it and stopped waiting and just crashed the diploma handing out building and stole their booze.

No one told me this was allowed!!!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 19 May 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

There was a guy getting an honorary degree for support of the sciences (IE paid vast amounts of money to the optics people) at one of mine, which meant that I had to sit through another incredibly long and boring speech, but did get to find out what the Latin for laser is (it's laserignum).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 May 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

ally I just watched something on CNN about the Columbia class of 2005! because, like their lives were SHAPED by the 9/11 attacks etc. I looked for you in the audience but I didn't see you; they spent all their time with Harmony the class president.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

The blonde hair looks damn good lady.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

COngrats, Ally. How come it's in English? Mine, which is from Columbia even though I did not go to Columbia, is in Latin. Anyway, I'm going to be in NYC this weekend, will try to make it up for your shin dig. Also, everyone, what is going on Sat. night??? I've got months' worth of living in suburbia piling up, and I am ready to party.

― Mary Mary, Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

congrats, ally!

at my graduation from michigan, we actually invited lee (c bollinger, then UM prez) to join us for a ceremonial flask passing after the ceremony, and an unveiling of what was in our religion GSI's thermos. he never showed. bastard.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Congraduations, Ally!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

actually, i re-thought what i posted and you are correct nabisco. i just love taking cheap shots at rutgers is all :-)

i was sorta the opposite of gabb -- skipped out on my undergrad grad ceremony, went to the law school one (but only b/c my parents wanted to go -- otherwise, i would've skipped that one too). i didn't go to the villanova grad ceremony b/c neither myself nor my parents wanted to schlepp down there.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Congraduations, Ally!

yes. haha, i almost wish i had thought of that tewible pun myself now.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Mary, that is wonderful news :)

The whole 9/11 + Class of 2005 nonsense is silly. I had no idea they were going on about that, I wasn't in the audience, I showed up a half hour before it was supposed to end and then loitered around buildings waiting to be able to get in and get my diploma.

― Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations Ally! Weel done, and happy birthday for the other day, I forgot to say. Your certicficate looks a lot nicer than mine. I wish mine were landscape like that.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

giboyeux, the words "sitting on the porch drinking beers with an enormous shaved bear" are almost as good a graduation gift as the present I got.

Oh, btw: can we trade?

Also: Dmouth did their shit up in Latin. Which, I guess, makes me better than you in a lot of ways.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

The H-bomb is all Latined out, too. I actually have an A.B., not a B.A., which has made a couple of prospective employers say "I didn't think Harvard gave associate degrees???" That is usually the point where I get up and walk out of the interview.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Nothing impresses potential employers quite like correcting them on their Latin grammar / knowledge of accredited degrees!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I prefer having a diploma that is not in Latin. I think Latin would've frightened me, that it was secretly insulting me or something.

― Allyzay is not appropriate for freedom (allyzay), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

If it starts getting fresh, just toss this at it: Nemo me impune lacesset, BIATCH! And dangle it over the shredder.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

My classy classicist friend led the tiny protest against the vernacularization of the Columbia diplomas a couple of years ago.

Congratulations but now I have one less person to hang out with uptown.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

There were munchkins in the kitchen, I did not eat any. Everyone congratulate me.

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:23 (eleven years ago)

congrats!

― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 1 December 2014 15:39 (eleven years ago)

Please tell me you meant actual munchkins.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:05 (eleven years ago)

Nooooooooooo!

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:07 (eleven years ago)

congrats, hurting :)

― ∞, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:57 (eleven years ago)

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