Bruins Nation: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:



Questions I Would Ask the Coaches at S.E.C. Media Days Bar-right-arrows



Special Sunday For the Nation

Happy Fathers to day to everyone.

Have you called your Dad yet?

Happy Fathers to day to all the Dads here on BN - Menelaus, Meriones, Ajax, Achilles, Class of 66, Fox71 and many others - who help make this place the most passionate, engaged, and intellectually honest Bruin online community around the internets.

Now this is a special Sunday for this Nation. We've got Dad Day today on top of the graduation weekend. Again want to extrend our congratulations to every member of the UCLA class of 2007.


Graduation (06) at the Catheral of College Basketball
Photo Credit/Source: Big Willie Style's Photo Stream


From my experience 4 and 2/3 quarters in Westwood was Paradise. But life only got better from there on as an alum of one of the finest universities in the world. And for our newest graduates on BN, I just have a simple message. This is a family in its truest sense. We are here for each other. If you need help, suggestions, ideas on what you want to do next (i.e. whereever you want to go to law school, med school, what cities you want to live in) we are here for you. Fire away with questions. Don't be shy to engage the hundreds, thousands of alums who are coming to BN every day to get their blue and gold fix.

So congratualtions to all our newest graduates and a Happy Father's Day to the Nation.

Enjoy your Sunday.

GO BRUINS.

0 recs | Comment 14 comments

Story-email Email | Print |

Comments

Display:

Great post
And congratulations to all.

As N said above, we are all part of the UCLA family (by the way, family members sometimes fight with each other--it does happen).

Why not use your family as a resource?  For myself, I have learned, solely from BN, the best places for pizza throughout the country and where to get the best, ahem, "services" in New York.  Fox may have already picked himself up some new spiffy UCLA club head covers based on info learned from BN.

On a more serious note, a lot of us have been alums for years.  We are all over the country and have been to many different post-graduate schools.  We've held all sorts of different jobs.  Alumni are happy, willing and, in fact, EAGER to help out new graduates with questions, advice, etc..  Asking for advice is free, and the advice you get is free.  Why not use it?  

N already said all of this, in different words, but it bears repeating.

Congrats all-around again.

by Barnes2JJ on Jun 17, 2007 10:17 AM PDT   0 recs

Not to mention
We have bona fide, top line wedding planning consultant here on BN.

by Nestor on Jun 17, 2007 10:22 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

By default
But I will offer any advice on how to plan a Bruin wedding.  Of course, I always try to help out a fellow Bruin whenever I can.  I have to return the favor.  Congrat to the Class of 2007!

by bruinbabe2000 on Jun 17, 2007 6:16 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Bruinbabe2000
Speaking of getting married, did we ever see any wedding pix?
BillSouthBay

by BillSouthBay on Jun 17, 2007 1:00 PM PDT   0 recs

She posted them on the board
just check the recent archives

by trainwreck on Jun 17, 2007 2:13 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wow....
I just realized it's 10 years to the day that I graduated, Kareem gave our commencement speach as well..... man, how the time flies by.  Congrats to all the new Bruin alums!!!!!
Go Bruins, Go Howland, F-Lavin, and let's get rid of Dorrell....

by BruinManDan97 on Jun 17, 2007 2:55 PM PDT   0 recs

Hate to spoil the happy dad's day celebration
but CBS Sunday Morning had a short article on Bill and Luke Walton.

No pictures of Bill in UCLA gear, but two pictures of him rooting for his son wearing UA gear.

Damn you Lavin!!!!

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Jun 17, 2007 4:33 PM PDT   0 recs

Another congrats to the grads...
I still remember that wonderful day in 2000 in Pauley Pavilion...what a great experience that I am fortunate to have experienced and glad that the class of '07 had that same experience too.  I just finished the MPA program at CSULB and my most recent grad experience sucked (for failure to find a better word) compared to the UCLA one in 2000.  Don't ever forget the experience and know that you are a part of a chosen and extremely honored/ proud few...and to reiterate the above posts, your fellow alums are here to help.

by meow meow on Jun 17, 2007 9:18 PM PDT   0 recs

2000 ceremony
That was when I walked too.  However I had a horrible case of the (gin) flu.  I just wanted to get home and watch Tiger Woods lap the field up at Pebble.  The day did get better, the VCR actually taped the Open (how did we survive before TiVO) and dinner was at the Pacific Dining Car with an awesome bottle of Cab.  

by MOlson on Jun 17, 2007 10:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I had the (bud light) flu too that day...
but I still had a great time and it will always be one of my most memorable experiences...minus the splitting headache, as a result of the night before, when I contracted the flu.

by meow meow on Jun 18, 2007 7:07 AM PDT   0 recs

I had to graduate in LATC
You must have been social studies majors.  I was humanities.  I did have Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, as my speaker, which was pretty cool.

by bruinbabe2000 on Jun 18, 2007 8:54 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

So did I
It was hot on the court in 1995! And Chancellor Young referred to our class as Class of 1955! Though he corrected himself. Our speaker was a professor I think...can't remember who.

My roommate then gave the student speech at the ceremony in LATC in 1996. It was hilarious.

by tasser10 on Jun 18, 2007 11:02 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

When I graduated UCLAW in '97...
... (I know, not a June ceremony, but still...) our guest speaker was Reverend Jesse Jackson.  Now, regardless of your political leanings, Jackson is a heckuva speaker.

Having sung a solo during commencement exercises, I got to be up on the dais with the notables.  After the ceremony, the Rev. was kind enough to shake my hand and congratulate me.  

At that time, however, I took it upon my self to ask for an autograph.  He graciously agreed, and asked if I'd wanted him to autograph the program, or the black folder I had with me.

Nope.  Instead, I oepned the folder and handed him a book regarding one of his greatest oratorical achievements...

"Green Eggs and Ham," by Dr. Seuss.

Honest to God.  I'd seen him read it on an SNL/ Weekend Update sketch back in Fall 1991 with some friends in my dorm, and darned if it was not one of the funniest things I'd ever seen.

The Rev. saw it, and after an initial outburst of "Good Lord!" and an incredulous smile, he signed it "Keep Hope Alive.  Rev. Jesse Jackson."

Honest to God.

M

WHY NOT US? WHY NOT NOW?

by Meriones on Jun 18, 2007 2:46 PM PDT   0 recs

Well done!
That was indeed hilarious, I remember watching that skit in Rieber Hall...

by tasser10 on Jun 18, 2007 3:25 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to Bruins Nation, an unofficial daily online scrap book covering the greatest collegiate athletic program in the nation. GO BRUINS.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Small
Off Topic for most - Critical for Some: The Bar Exam
10113_big_small
An Interview With John Savage
9ceb0165-b773-443d-8a5f-cb4befbe4c28_small
Blue Ribbon's Take On UCLA Football
Small
Will the real "PG U" please stand up!

Recent FanPosts

Small
new addition to uclabruins.com
Rowing_picture_small
Preseason Rankings
9ceb0165-b773-443d-8a5f-cb4befbe4c28_small
NCAA Considering Addition of Sand/Beach Volleyball
Img00042_small
NCAA Football 2009
Brad_pitt_as_achilles_small
Dylan Rush Signs Boxing Deal, Looks For MMA Career
9ceb0165-b773-443d-8a5f-cb4befbe4c28_small
Uni Watch on Coach Sanders' Cleverness
Small
Pac-10 not faring so well in ESPN's Prestige rankings
Small
European Basketball-Take another look

Post_icon New FanPost All FanPosts Carrot-mini


Managers

094_small Ajax

Bruinsnation_small Nestor

Menelaus2_small Menelaus

Arron_afflalo1_small Tydides

Brad_pitt_as_achilles_small Achilles

Small Meriones

Telemachus_small Telemachus

Small Odysseus

ad

Site Meter