#Rally Day

[brianfrench1995]

1918 Rally Day - Women's Suffrage Postcard

@postcardtimemachine

[addierose444]

Rally Day 2023

Last Thursday was Rally Day! As mentioned in my most recent blog post about the celebration of engineering seniors, Rally Day was my first opportunity to wear my graduation gown. Rather than pairing the ropes with our graduation caps, a fun Rally Day tradition is to wear a fun hat. There’s also technically a hat competition and some people really go all out with this. One cool part about this competition is that it is judged by alums (who at least for the most part are also Smith faculty members). The categories are Biggest Hat, Most Creative, Best Accessory, Best use of Smith Tradition, and Most Sustainable. As I didn’t have any fun or creative ideas, I opted to just wear my new hard hat. Most of the engineers I saw were also wearing their hard hats, but some did add some fun decorations.

Afternoon classes are canceled on Rally Day to make time for the ceremony. While I technically have Thursday morning, afternoon, and evening classes, I was fortunate enough to have them all canceled. I thus took the opportunity to sleep in and grab brunch with a friend. We next went to the Campus Center to see everyone’s hats. 

The main reason to attend the Rally Day ceremony is that it’s where the commencement speaker is announced. However, this big announcement is left for last. During the ceremony, the Glee Club performed twice and a number of awards were distributed including the Smith College medals (for alumnae), faculty teaching awards, and the Elizabeth B. Wyandt Gavel Awards (for Smith staff members “who have given extraordinarily of themselves to the Smith College community as a whole.” Upon receiving their awards, the recipients gave mini speeches.  

The next part of the ceremony was announcing the 2023 honorary degree recipients (Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Gabby Giffords, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Camara Phyllis Jones, and Kelly Link). Finally, after an hour and a half our commencement speaker, Reshma Saujani, was finally announced. While I’d never heard of her by name, I had heard of Girls Who Code which is an international non-profit organization focused on closing the gender tech gap that she founded back in 2012. While I haven’t personally been impacted by this organization, I did donate my Microsoft giving dollars to them two summers ago. As an intern, our giving portals are pre-loaded with $50 that we can donate to various non-profits. If you’re interested, you can read more about these amazing Microsoft intern benefits. 

After the ceremony I went to Amherst to grab dinner with some friends at Agrigato Sushi I ordered pork gyoza and miso ramen which were really tasty. I will note however that the restaurant was pretty pricy.

[nando161mando]

▶️ Pro-Palestine protesters rally on the Democratic National Convention final day in Chicago

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[inkmaze]

hey go do some local activism in person if youre able to. can confirm it helps get rid of some dread and replace it w hope and direction and community building. social media can be helpful and good, but so many things start and are furthered by boots on the ground, local.

[cryptiqish]

queen of speed ⚡️

[moveslikekeithrichards]

this weeks gonna be so insane im making my friends send me images of pretty young christopher walken with his big beautiful eyes for Strength

[lycheeluv]

"Lu Guang"

[cyarskj1899]

[cyarsk52-20]

this is the place where the guy posted the tweet that glorifies rape. Make his life a living nightmare.

[cyarsk5230]

To the 92 percent of Black Women, I say thank you. ❤️

To the 79 percent of Black Men, thank you. ❤️

To the 80 percent of Jewish voters, thank you. ❤️

To the 85 percent of LGBTQ voters, thank you ❤️.

To the 61 percent of Latinas, thank you. ❤️

To the 44 percent of Latinos, thank you. ❤️

To the 43 to 47 percent of White Women, thank you. ❤️

To the 38 percent of White Men, thank you. ❤️

To the Asians that did not align with White Supremacy, thank you. ❤️

Everyone else can choke on a bag of dicks, pound sand, fall in a ditch, get sucked up by a twister, go to hell, have an accident, or whatever. Just fuck all the way off. 🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾 I hope you all suffer from the choice you made.

[ashlynnlylim]

Jackass Gumball rally special 🤘🏻

[cyarskaren52]

People actually need to do more of this!

Shame people for voting for a RACIST.

Shame them for voting for a RAPIST.

Shame them for voting for a FELON!

I’m sorry but you don’t get to interact with me like you didn’t just VOTE MY RIGHTS AWAY!

No you’re not welcomed in my home!

[arifesilver]

I weave a chain with pure silver wires. It will be a bracelet when finished.

[machineheraldbabe]

a final summoning...

a simple summoning circle as we approach the final stretch...i believe we have so very much to look forward to.

we will stand tall. we will emerge viktorious. we will have a great season 2. we will see viktor in all his glory. we are viktor nation.

[dontforgetukraine]

A rally to honor fallen heroes in Kyiv, October 1, 2024. Photo by Oleh Tymoshenko