So I graduated last Friday. Cool, no more high school, on to college! Cool, graduation parties---a bit of fun with these guys before I probably never see them again. Really cool: graduation gifts!
Went to my dad's house yesterday, and found that there were some gifts waiting from me. Something like this:
First, from my dad's sister (someone I've met once as a baby, and will be meeting again at the end of this month), I got a silky "4-leaf clover plant," a cool gift considering my dad is probably entirely Irish, an iron for pressing clothes (goodbye wrinkles?), and an 8.0 megapixel camera. Sweet deal, have to make sure I thank her when I see her in a few weeks.
Next, from my dad and his girlfriend, a Sony Vaio laptop w/ Windows Vista Ultimate (200GB HD, 2GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo processor), a couple of 512MB memory sticks (for my desktop, which should put me up to 2GB for that now), and some rechargeable AA batteries (for the camera). I'm posting from the laptop now while installing FF3 rc2. I don't care much for Vista, but it's bearable I suppose as long as the system specs are well-off enough to handle it. My only real gripe with the thing so far is all of the junk software it came with, which included a 60-day trial to Norton 360 (I've tried unsuccessfully to uninstall it several times), and a lot of AOL software that I don't want.
Kudos to them, now it's time for me to get my laptop running up to my own standards (I'm leaving the Bad Vista sticker on the page because I still think it's bad, regardless of whether or not I care enough to remove it from the laptop). =)
Grats, I wish I could graduate more often. I've collected at least over $800 in cash in the past two weeks, and I haven't even received all of my gifts yet. Bought me a laptop too with Vista with all the crappy bundled software but Norton came off pretty easily for me..
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Nice one, I wish I got presents too when I finished school! I do get £100 for every A grade I get in my A-levels though (like AP exams), will find out results in August.
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Where you off to for college? What course? Believe I'll be going to Washington State University, in Pullman, WA, USA (assuming I can afford to actually travel there this August, with the cost of travel these days) to study Computer Science or some related field. Yourself? | |
For my graduation(which was 3 years ago, damn I'm getting old) I got a family meeting(which is a big thing, considering I have family all over the country) and a nice watch. Not exactly a laptop, but I'll tell ya, I use this watch way more than I use my laptop. And 3 years later it is still ticking and in great condition, considering I wear it every day(never thought a watch could be such a great gift).