Well, I finally did it. On Sunday afternoon, I finally and officially graduated from UW-Milwaukee. It was a nice day, there were tons and tons of students graduating, and it was all worth it.

Some of the highlights from the event:

• Getting to skip to the front of the 530+ business students in line, thanks to a friend in the AMA who let about seven of us in.
• U.S. Congresswoman Gweneth Moore’s gaffe. She read her notes, “committed suicide,” instead of “committed students.” Everybody’s jaw dropped.
• Some of the text messages sent to me by Tracy and JG that were just about the funniest things that I have read in ages. JG’s cousin, Michael, should be a comedian.
• The fact that they actually read, “Fuzz Martin,” as I walked.
• Walking.

I’m just happy to be done. I initially planned on attending UW-Whitewater to get my MBA, but now I think I may just return to UW-Milwaukee. It’s about $10,000 less to do the UWM program on campus than it is to do the UWW program on the internet. Plus, UWM is more widely recognized than UW-Whitewater, so it’s probably in my best interest… I’m just sick of driving.

Thank you, sincerely, to all of you who have put up with me through my BBA program and who have congratulated me on finally graduating! It was a lot of hard work, but it was a great experience and a hell of a lot of fun.

As Claude referenced in the previous post, I have finally finished my bachelors degree. Yesterday, I took my last two final exams as a college undergraduate! So, aside from walking up to the stage and picking up my diploma, I am done with UWM!

At times it was a long, hard road, but I feel like I finally accomplished something great. It is like a gigantic rock has been lifted off of my shoulders.

Congrats to everyone who is graduating and best of luck with your careers.

1. Finish Marketing “Internship” paper.
2. Finish Marketing Management paper.
3. Finish Business Ethics Paper
4. Give Marketing Management presentation
5. Take Business Ethics exam.
6. Take Management Analysis Exam.
7. GRADUATE!!!!!

This is that time of the year when I am inundated with work, school projects, and more work and school projects. I will be done with school two weeks from tomorrow! After that, it’s fun, sun, and taking my GMAT for my Master’s.

Now, back to a hot word processor. Later tonight I might tell you about the awesome trip to Chicago that Tracy and I took over the weekend. But right now… I’ve got isht to do.

After a relatively short hiatus, I am pleased to report that Lambda Chi Alpha has been accepted back at UW-Whitewater.

A lot of people have been instrumental in the return of Lambda Chi @ UWW, and the efforts are not done yet (nor will they be done, per se, once membership has been restored), but it is great to know that we are one step closer to returning a great fraternity to the campus of UW-Whitewater.

From UWWLCA.com (Claude and my other baby):

Everyone,
It is with great joy that I post this message saying that our return to Whitewater has been cleared on all levels.

The Dean of Students has signed off and given final approval of our return. Lambda Chi Alpha will begin the expansion process this fall, with a professional recruitment team coming to Whitewater for 3 weeks to build our Colony.

Keep tabs on this website to find out more about this important re-colonizing process.

At least Senioritis hasn’t affected all of my grades (actually, it hasn’t affected any).

I got this in the mail yesterday.

In my past few years at UWM, I have used UPark and have even had my own UPass. It wasn’t until I read Boots and Sabers this morning that I even would have even read UPass as Up Ass. Haha… juvenile but fun! Click through Owen’s link to see some other poorly formed URLs.

…just ordered my cap and gown. Sweeeeeeet. May 18th can’t come fast enough!

In UWM’s Lubar Hall (the Business School), there are separate study rooms for those who would like to quietly study for their classes. Unfortunately, the asshats that are in here now didn’t get the memo. I could quite seriously go in the hallway right now and enjoy a lower level of noise than the drunk-ass accounting students are emitting.

Man, I’m getting old.

From my UWM email:

Campus Safety Alert: Suspect in custody after armed robberies

One suspect is in custody and another suspect has been identified
following three armed robberies south of campus between 8 and 9 p.m. on
Monday evening, March 24. The suspect in custody, arrested less than an
hour after the first armed robbery, has confessed to being involved in
the robberies, according to UWM Police Chief Pam Hodermann.

UWM Police assisted in the case by identifying a stolen car and chasing
suspects on foot.

Additional details are online at:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/police/crimealerts.htm

Anyone with additional information about these incidents should call the
Milwaukee Police Department Criminal Investigation Bureau, (414) 935-7302.

UWM Police and University Relations offer information on remaining safe
at the Campus Safety Web site:

http://www4.uwm.edu/safety/

Also at the site are directions of how to sign up for the university’s
S.A.F.E. Alerts text-messaging system.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Rejects University of Wisconsin Board of Regents discussed forcing “well-off families” to pay more for tuition than less-fortunate families, yesterday.

I’m concerned that this will actually encourage Wisconsin’s “well-off families” to gladly pay more tuition… to Stanford, MIT, or anywhere else on the east coast. This, of course, will lead to more kids from well-to-do families staying out east (or anywhere else, really), and therefore taking that money and talent out of our state.

But hey… at least we’ll keep our title as the most-socialist of all the states in the union.

On of my “business” professors was late to class today because he was busy watching the Brett Favre retirement press conference. Pretty damn professional. We’re now five minutes into when class was supposed to start and we still haven’t gotten down to business. Sheesh!

These are a few things that I see differently now than I did when I first went to college at age 17:

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Chelsea Clinton is coming to the UWM Union Ballroom tomorrow morning at 10:45. That’s awesome. I mean, who better than the dog-faced daughter of the world’s foremost ice queen to really connect with young voters. Sheesh. I’m glad that I don’t have classes tomorrow - campus is going to be a perfect mess.

Hat tip: the most beautiful girl in the worrrrrrrld.

Yesterday, we all got word that registered sex offender, Eugene Nelson, is out of prison after 20 years, and now he’s attending school at UWM. The problem with the whole situation is that he, uhm, used to sexually assault college women.

Rather than tell him that he’s not allowed to attend college, taxpayers/tuition payers are paying for, well, I’ll let the news spell it out for you:

Nelson is not allowed to wander around and a police officer is with him at all times.

That’s right. Instead of saying, “no, you can’t go here. Go to an online school if you want an education.” He is getting a tax-funded police officer as an escort.

Does the ridiculousness ever cease? I’ll be contacting the school with my disgust, shortly.

Photo courtesy of a great site: FamilyWatchdog.us.

UPDATE:

From the UWM Chief of Police:

Dear students, faculty, staff and other members of the UWM campus community:

Eugene Nelson, a registered sex offender, is no longer attending classes on the UWM campus.

This afternoon, I applied for graduation from UWM! I thought the day would never come! I can’t wait for May to get here!!!

This one.

and

This one.

Two weeks from tomorrow, I start my final semester as an undergrad! I’m pretty excited to get this isht done ! As you can tell, I’ve been kinda laying low here in my off time. Lately, I’ve been working on my photography portfolio basically any moment that I am not at the radio station or on location. I’m trying to supplement my income with extra income from my photography portfolio. It’s not going too badly, but it could definitely be better. You get back what you put in, for the most part.

My grades are in from UWM. This semester I got one A and three B+’s. That equates to a 3.498… but perfectionist me doesn’t like that so much. Of course, the semester before I received a 3.333 (1 A, 2 B+’s, and a B-)… so this is better than that, right?

One more semester to go for my BBA and then I’ll start working on my MBA.  Wish me luck! Ack… screw it… wish me patience.