Stephanie graduated Sunday, June 11th, 2006 with Highest Honors from DePaul University majoring in Spanish and Psychology with a Human Services concentration. Her graduation ceremony was held at the Allstate Arena and was the third commencement to take place that day. The ceremony started at 3:30 PM CDT and lasted just about 3 hours.

Steph Receiving Diploma Allstate Arena Packed with Graduates Steph with the Grandmas Steph with Matt, Jack, and Megan

Updated: June 21st, 2006

During the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications & Information Systems (CTI) Commencement that took place before Stephanie's ceremony, Ray Kurzweil was awarded an honorary degree and gave speech to the graduating class. I am a big fan of Ray Kurzweil and was sad to have missed this in person, but DePaul has recorded webcasts of the commencement ceremonies, so I got to watch the presentation he gave. For those of you who are interested, here is the Ray Kurzweil Commencement Speech at DePaul (41.8 MB, 16 minutes).

Updated: June 22nd, 2006

For those of you who missed Stephanie's graduation and feel bad about it, ;) I have posted an 8 second clip of Stephanie receiving her diploma, saving you about 10792 seconds from the entire graduation.