POLL!

[skitty]

There are two graduations: the divisional ceremony on Thursday 5/29, and the big, all-school event on Friday 5/30. At the divisional ceremony they will call my name, and I will walk across the stage, and I will receive my latin honors. At the big one, I will sit in a chair and listen to the President of the college give a speech

Comments

[greenquotebook]

I'm assuming you're asking because the ceremony *does* mean something to you, so attend the one where you're going to be singled out for your hard work and achievements. Screw the big one. If you feel bad afterwards for missing it, crash one held at another school. I'll bet you won't be able to tell the difference anyway. Personally, I wouldn't go to either because I can think of a hundred better ways to spend 4 hours, especially in NYC, but hey, you can't go back in time and decide to attend a missed ceremony, so go. :)

[skitty]

I do want to go to the divisional ceremony, and I don't particularly care about the big one. Nevertheless, the big one seems to be important to my husband, and he's not able to articulate why in a way that I can understand, so I am looking for further insight. I thought maybe there was someone else out there who saw the value in attending the all-school graduation, and could shed some light on it for me.

It All Depends

[cinema_babe]

It depends on how attached you feel to your school. When I got my
MA last year, I knew it would be the last time I would be graduating from Rutgers. I'd been a student or employee there for more than a decade and it's where I began my undergrad work back in the 80s.

Also I didn't go to the University Wide graduation ceremony when I got my BA so I or me it was a way of saying goodbye to a school that had been such a major, and important, part of my life.

(Weird factoid: There were over 1000 students at the University wide celebration and guess who was the last student to march into the stadium? Our school was the last to process in and the MA students were last of our school. I paused for a moment to look behind me and I realized that I was at the end of the line.

I made the most of it and waved my hands in the air like I just didn't care.

Re: It All Depends

[skitty]

I hadn't thought about that. I haven't been here quite that long, but it has represented a remarkable transition and a truly happy time in my life. Not only that, but I will truly miss the student body at CCNY and the support that I have received from the faculty and administration.

Plus, I haven't graduated from anything since high school, which I did on my 18th birthday. Wowza. Might as well make the most of it.

[gev]

Maybe I'm just a killjoy, but I've never attended a graduation ceremony I wasn't forced to go to and I think the proliferation of them (graduating from kindergarten, really?) is ever more silly.

That said, you should do what YOU want, but not to the complete exclusion of your husbands opinion.

[skitty]

I hear what you're saying, but surely college graduation isn't directly comparable to graduating from kindergarten, no? Especially given how long it's taken me to get here!

But you have definitely isolated the important factor: it's very important to my husband to see me graduate at the all-school ceremony, and it's not going to do me any harm, so I should go.

[gev]

Indeed, I think the any graduation ceremony before finishing high school is just silly.