80th Annual Postgraduate Convention Gala

I’m going to it. As is tradition, the senior class has been invite to attend this event that is put on by the School of Medicine’s Alumni Association. We will be receiving two free tickets to the Gala, if we choose to go.

I just saw the website for the event. Apparently, those who would like to sponsor a table for 8 students may do so for $1000. 

Further down there is a section about VIP seating. Should an attendee like VIP seating, they would need to pay $100 in addition to their regularly priced tickets. I have no idea what the regular tickets cost. 

Apparently this is going to be a formal event. Tuxedos, black suits, evening gowns, etc.

It is on Monday, March 5. 

And right now, my date for the evening is trying to figure out what she’s going to wear. Because I just invited her today.

Talk about my timing, right?

So I just saw this on facebook. Apparently Joan Lundun will be speaking for the LLU School of Medicine commencement address this year. And she is the daughter of one of our alumni. Very cool.  Also, I’ll be taking my graduation portraits next week. I still can’t believe this is happening. And by graduation portrait, I mean with the entire regalia — including the “tam.” Did you know it isn’t called a cap? Doctoral graduates wear a “tam.” The things you learn…
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So I just saw this on facebook. Apparently Joan Lundun will be speaking for the LLU School of Medicine commencement address this year. And she is the daughter of one of our alumni. Very cool. 

Also, I’ll be taking my graduation portraits next week. I still can’t believe this is happening. And by graduation portrait, I mean with the entire regalia — including the “tam.” Did you know it isn’t called a cap? Doctoral graduates wear a “tam.”

The things you learn…

Source: facebook.com

Seems like they have been working on this part of the campus for the longest time. Looks like it’s almost done and they are doing the last few polishes. It’s looking pretty good. The sidewalk leading up to this sculpture and the glass building behind it lists significant events over the last century that the medical school and university has been in existence.  It’s interesting, though (at least to me), that from this angle the campus looks all super modern. But to the left and right of the frame are really old buildings. To the left is a building that used to house the Anatomy lab and held lectures for the freshman medical students that came through here during the last half of the previous century. 
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Seems like they have been working on this part of the campus for the longest time. Looks like it’s almost done and they are doing the last few polishes. It’s looking pretty good. The sidewalk leading up to this sculpture and the glass building behind it lists significant events over the last century that the medical school and university has been in existence. 

It’s interesting, though (at least to me), that from this angle the campus looks all super modern. But to the left and right of the frame are really old buildings. To the left is a building that used to house the Anatomy lab and held lectures for the freshman medical students that came through here during the last half of the previous century. 

Pictured here are the offices of the LLU School of Medicine and the LLUMC Cancer Institute. The University Medical Center has previously collaborated with NASA and its Cancer Institute housed the first hospital-based proton treatment center in the world. The proton treatment center has most famously been used to treat prostate cancer, although I hear that they are researching it’s use in the treatment of other cancers as well. Their little claim to fame is that Loma Linda University was asked to help Harvard University set up their proton treatment center a few years back. In the background you can see the towers of the Medical Center and the flags atop the north helipad. The Medial Center is the only Level I trauma center in the county. Major trauma patients who are too far east of LA to go to UCLA are flown to Loma Linda University.  And that is the last of my picture uploads. It ended up being a sort of virtual tour of the LLU campus. I hope you didn’t mind being dragged along. 
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Pictured here are the offices of the LLU School of Medicine and the LLUMC Cancer Institute. The University Medical Center has previously collaborated with NASA and its Cancer Institute housed the first hospital-based proton treatment center in the world. The proton treatment center has most famously been used to treat prostate cancer, although I hear that they are researching it’s use in the treatment of other cancers as well. Their little claim to fame is that Loma Linda University was asked to help Harvard University set up their proton treatment center a few years back.

In the background you can see the towers of the Medical Center and the flags atop the north helipad. The Medial Center is the only Level I trauma center in the county. Major trauma patients who are too far east of LA to go to UCLA are flown to Loma Linda University. 

And that is the last of my picture uploads. It ended up being a sort of virtual tour of the LLU campus. I hope you didn’t mind being dragged along. 

Source: Flickr / semperjeffrei