Believe it or not, you can still graduate and receive your diploma without going through the graduation ceremony. They only give you a blank piece of paper at the ceremony anyway.
…some in hindsight understand the extended rhetoric and ceremony as gratitude and promise for the future after years of focused effort in an environment and atmosphere among classmates and friends that will never be relived in that timeframe
….don’t knock liberal arts…many have gained a philosophical logical intuitive insight into real life that engineering and science geniuses will never acquire in their wildest dreams
At my graduation, in the spring of 1968, prior to the commencement speeches, a thunderstorm rolled in, and U of MN President Malcolm Moos (not Moss) took the microphone, before it blew off the wind-whipped stage, and said “You’re graduated”, and we all ran for cover. So, apart from the time it took us to be seated, my graduation took about 5 minutes, give or take. Since graduation attendance wasn’t required for my MS degree, they just mailed it to me.
Just as a funeral isn’t for the dead; i.e., it if for the living, a graduation ceremony isn’t necessarily for the graduates, it is for the friends, relatives, and the parents who usually end up footing the bill!
Smiley Rmom over 10 years ago
Believe it or not, you can still graduate and receive your diploma without going through the graduation ceremony. They only give you a blank piece of paper at the ceremony anyway.
J Short over 10 years ago
Just sit with your smart phone and tweet. It will all be over soon.
LingeeWhiz over 10 years ago
And they won’t let you walk up anyway with those sandals on.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 10 years ago
Relax..you’ll be picking low hanging fruit in no time
miqq1234 over 10 years ago
…some in hindsight understand the extended rhetoric and ceremony as gratitude and promise for the future after years of focused effort in an environment and atmosphere among classmates and friends that will never be relived in that timeframe
miqq1234 over 10 years ago
….don’t knock liberal arts…many have gained a philosophical logical intuitive insight into real life that engineering and science geniuses will never acquire in their wildest dreams
mabrndt Premium Member over 10 years ago
At my graduation, in the spring of 1968, prior to the commencement speeches, a thunderstorm rolled in, and U of MN President Malcolm Moos (not Moss) took the microphone, before it blew off the wind-whipped stage, and said “You’re graduated”, and we all ran for cover. So, apart from the time it took us to be seated, my graduation took about 5 minutes, give or take. Since graduation attendance wasn’t required for my MS degree, they just mailed it to me.
neverenoughgold over 10 years ago
Just as a funeral isn’t for the dead; i.e., it if for the living, a graduation ceremony isn’t necessarily for the graduates, it is for the friends, relatives, and the parents who usually end up footing the bill!