[sphinx]

I skipped my college graduation because I had no intention of sweltering for hours while endless lists of names were read. My diploma eventually arrived in the mail. I think I still have it somewhere, unopened. The degree still counts.

Maybe all the real students should just skip the ceremonies and let the gong show artists do what they want to do. After all, it's probably a miracle that most of them are "graduating" to begin with. And this is probably the last chance they'll have to prance around like that without getting fired.

The serious students should boycott until the administration comes to its senses.

[bert]

I also missed my graduation. I had a letter from the dean of the school of engineering and everything. It was the ultimate cut.

Time was a wastin..... My wife and I had to get married and start new jobs 400 miles apart in a very short time the first weeks of June and my graduation ceremony just didn’t have the priority.

[ABN 505]

Having been to several of these Graduations that have a sizable number of “minorities” in attendance, I can tell you that it is an embarrassment and disgrace as to the behavior of these so called “young Adults”. The antics and antisocial behavior of the “Graduates” is more like the behavior of some tribal species of Anthropoids on a National Geographic TV special. Having to sit through 2 hrs or more or screaming, whistling, shouting riotous noise only intterupted by the jumping, dancing and arm flapping gave me the incentive to remove myself as far from these denizens of my hometown as I could. I now reside in a town with 00.1 % minorities , Heaven on Earth!

[Oldexpat]

Only a top few should receive on stage. It should also be blank with the real one put in the mail. Don’t follow proper decorum it might not come.

[ladyjane]

The degree still counts.

Really? You think so?

Many college graduates are illiterate, have no work ethic and have no idea how to behave in a civilized society. That's because these kids spent four years partying and downloading assigned papers from the internet. Exams? You've got to be kidding.

The degree no longer counts for much.