Inauguration Day

Yesterday, it was the Inauguration of IIT's Eighth President, J. L. Anderson. The ceremony lasts about 1h-1h30, and there were so much people that the organizers split the crowd in two parts, one in the theater where the ceremony takes place, and one in the ballroom where seats had been put there for the occasion. Of course, i was in the ballroom but it makes no odds, i could take picture of the new president ! Everyone on the stage had a costume, like in movies.
Hello Mr President !!

Then after the ceremony, the organizers prepared a lunch with a lot of things which may come from restaurants, like roasted porks and goats which were delicious, pizzas, hot dogs, cheesecake etc...

The afternoon begins with what they called the Fall Festivies. In fact it was a crazy pumpkin launching competition between teams of students. They designed their own catapult and the goal is to launch a pumpkin as far as they could. The best team I saw launched its pumpkin and it landed maybe one feet from the limit of the field O_o I saw lots of people, like me, running from the area where the pumpkin could fall hehe what a Crazy Flying Pumpkin!!






This one fell not so far from the public...