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Anyone skip their college graduation?

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Flyback

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I was certain that I was going to skip my graduation. Sitting in the long gown for ~3 hours beside people I don't know in a dark auditorium filled with parents, aunts and uncles I don't know, to listen to a bunch of old pomp and circumstance officials talk about how the world is my oyster, watch them give honorary awards to their friends and then, when the time came, for me to walk across the stage and shake hands with a bunch of college officials and faculty whom I never met in my entire time there.

Then my father called me last night and told me how much it would mean to him. He told me how he missed his graduation for other reasons and would really like to see his only son graduate. Lay on the guilt, dad :| Looks like I'm going now 😉 I still think the idea is stupid (and I made summa), but I'll go to make my old man smile.



Did you skip your grad? Regret it?
 
i went to mine and wouldn't have had it any other way. all the things you state were true for my graduation: the long hours in the gown, handshaking with people i had never met, etc.

however, i knew that this would probably be the only college graduation i'd ever be a part of in my lifetime, and not many other people can say the same thing.

also, tom clancy was our commencement speaker 🙂
 
the only purpose, imho, for the graduation ceremony is to make your parents smile. If my parents/family couldnt attend my graduation, id skip it.
 
Yep. Apparently, I was the first engineering grad to skip it in many years.

I don't give a sh1t about ceremony. If it weren't for my mom, I would've skipped my high school graduation, too....
 
I skipped mine. No regrets. It's just a stupid ceremony. I didn't feel like sitting there for hours hearing a thousand+ names be called out.
 
Skipped mine, too. It's just a worthless piece of paper. Once I got a job in my field with good pay so I could buy a house for my family then we celebrated.
 
Didn't skip mine. A lot of family came to watch so it was a big deal. Plus it was fun going through the experience w/ all my friends
 
Summa cum laude, but skipped mine. Fortunately, my family understands that there are much more important things in life than sitting through a boring, meaningless ceremony.

Meaning? The ceremony means that you successfully finished 4 years of college? I didn't need a ceremony to tell me that. My family and friends didn't need a ceremony to tell them that.

Skipping the ceremony meant that I had more time available to spend with my family, who I didn't have much time to spend with while I was actually engaged in study.
 
I went...and I really enjoyed it. After all the hard work and time/money spent and spending soon on loans, I figured it was something I owed to myself as well as my family. The P's were really, really happy.
 
Ugh....God willing, I will graduate in about a year from college. I never wanted to go, still don't want to. Only problem is the person who has made this "education" possible says I better go for running her wallet dry🙂. I'm still going to try to bypass the ceremony since it is honestly BS (skipped my highschool one). Hopefull, I'll have other 'obligations' by that time.

Funny story though. Had a friend who skipped her graduation. She had no regrets, and was extra happy cause that was a bad day. Turned out, after a few weeks of 'drought', there was a huge summer storm that afternoon. The ceremony got rained on, and I was walking to summer school with an umbrella. The umbrella did nothing...
 
I skipped it. I was sick of college and sick of the town, so my parent's understood. No regrets here.

I wanted to skip my HS graduation too, but I couldn't weasel my way out of that one.
 
I went to mine and I don't regret it.

it made my parents happy and, though boring, there were some awesome parties that weekend following graduation before all us seniors moved out of the college town and back to real life.
 
I skipped mine and my parents were disappointed, but understood. If they helped finance you (mine didn't), and would like you to go, just do it. What is a few hours to appease them?
 
I didn't attend, and to this day don't feel a particularly strong attachment to the school. It was a good education, but I never felt infused with "School Spirit", and never really became involved with people in my graduating class.
 
Mine was last thursday (June 21st). I went and enjoyed it even thought it was long. My parents were really really happy and it was awesome seeing them that happy. I'm glad I went.
 
Originally posted by: mundane
I didn't attend, and to this day don't feel a particularly strong attachment to the school. It was a good education, but I never felt infused with "School Spirit", and never really became involved with people in my graduating class.
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Yep, lots of the school spirit and 'attachment' is a sham. Some people definately believe in the community, etc., etc., etc., but then there's everyone else. Most of the people I see in my class are clearly into the spirit/attachment for personal reasons (i.e. advance their resumes, appeal to prospective employers). Just last year, had two people running for class 'rep'; one gal who is an extremely happy/fun person probably ran cause she wanted to, and the other who is stone faced, "I'm better than you". Then there are the nerds of the class. A few of them in my class are among the nicest people I've ever met, and most of the class clearly take advantage of that by going to them for help/answers, then ignoring them any other time. With all of this "usery" culture, I'm happy that I'm not really attached to my school.
 
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