Carnegie Mellon - Qatar Graduation

Genny and I were invited to the graduation ceremony and commencement of the first non-Pittsburgh undergraduate class. We didn't have a chance to attend the ceremony as we had a pre-natal class to attend, but went to the reception afterwards.

During the ceremony, the Emir was there sitting in the front row with a video camera to film his daughter as she was one of the graduating class. We spoke with Dean thorpe who said that "there's nothing like pressure knowing that the Emir is in the front row filming you."

The entire campus was lit up and honestly made the place look majestic. The reception put our reception in Pittsburgh to shame in comparison as there was 5-star catering and an impressive array of media on-site.

As for the students, 35 graduated (23 business/12 CS) who were mostly female (27).

So we're very proud of the graudating class.

Genny and I finally have other non-staff alumni in the country now!