I know Elizabeth already gave a nice narrative about the decision letters being mailed out, but I thought you might enjoy seeing some pictures from our little celebration! For some reason the person in the office who has never owned a camera has been designated the "camera guy," so please keep that in mind when noticing my extreme lack of picture-taking skills.
The first batch of letters make their way to the truck.
![a man pulls a mail carrier](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/letters_go.jpg)
Debra waves to the camera. It was cold and rainy, but the nice thing about being the camera guy is the zoom feature = gets to stand in doorway and still shoot.
![A crowd holds umbrellas in the rain](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/debra_wave.jpg)
It's pretty much a rule: take a group of pictures and at least one shot will have someone whose eyes are closed.
![The umbrella holder's look at the camera](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/close_eyes.jpg)
Into the truck they go!
![The crowd watches the man push the mail carrier into a semi-truck](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/load_truck.jpg)
Still going in that truck...
![The man pushes the mail carrier up a ramp into a semi-truck](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/Truck.jpg)
If you haven't realized yet, there was a truck involved.
![The mail carrier sits in the back of a semi-truck](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/truck_load.jpg)
Even though we were getting wet, it was worth it.
![The crowd holding umbrellas waves at the camera](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/group_outside.jpg)
Most of us know how to use umbrellas. Some of us had to learn the hard way *cough* Chuck.
![A man gets help collapsing his umbrella](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/umbrella_break.jpg)
It takes a village to teach someone how to use an umbrella.
![An umbrella with the text "Oberlin College Admissions Office"](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/umbrella_fix.jpg)
Eventually, the crisis was averted.
![Three people struggle to collapse an umbrella](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/Umbrella.jpg)
And eventually we all got cold.
![The crowd walks in a line](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/coming_inside.jpg)
Nothing warms you up better or declares a celebration better than some bubbly.
![The photographer's view of a cup of champagne](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/glass.jpg)
It was a bittersweet toast, however, as Tom lost a pair of glasses from the poorly controlled cork explosion that occurred moments after this picture.
![A woman pops a champagne bottle](/sites/default/files/content/blog-import/pictures/Jesse/opening_bottle.jpg)