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DONE!
Author: Duane Johnson18 Jun
My classes at BYU are officially over! The graduation ceremony comes in a month and a half.
I took my last final exams yesterday… and it was actually kind of funny. Kelty and I had visited her brother and sister-in-law in Mesquite, NV on my Tuesday Reading Day and since we left very early in the morning I hadn’t yet shaved. Kelty and I drove straight through until noon when she dropped me off at the BYU-Provo campus for my Artificial Intelligence final exam. I went in without any problems and took the exam.
Next, I raced to the BYU-Salt Lake campus where I was to take my American Heritage final. But oh! They are square there. I think they get a monthly recognition award for catching wayward students. Anyway, the exam proctor young lady told me that I had to be clean shaven to take the exam. She wouldn’t hand out the exam, so I went to the bathroom to shave. I finished the exam without any fuss and laughed my way through the rain to the parking lot.
I loved my Computer Science education there, but it sure feels great to be free from 7 years of BYU community rules! 
5 Responses for "DONE!"
Congrats! It’s been 10 years since I took my last final (Algorithms, IIRC), and 9 years 8 months since I decided I didn’t want to go back for grad school …
Congratulations Duane…you’ve stuck with that while starting a business, doing all kinds of contracting work, and facing a host of other challenges.
Somehow, I think COMMENCEment is an appropriate term for you Duane. You’ll go far.
And enjoy the shadow/beard - doesn’t matter that I left, you know who doesn’t like to kiss me unless I’m clean-shaven.
Best!
@Neal: haha! Thanks. And you are so right about the OTHER rules I will always have to follow! Marriage is so worth it
Congratulations Duane! Well done!
Duane,
You made it and how ironic that you made it NOT by the skin of your teeth BUT the hairs shaven from your chinny, chin, chin!!!
Enhorabuena!!!
Ginger
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