Graduation ceremonies

Every tom dick and harry get's a degree nowadays thanks to New Labour, they are worth celebrating like the way Man. Utd celabrated winning the Carling cup this week.

I'd recommend just doing your bike trip then get your head down into the real world when you come back.
 
I went but didn't really want to. Didn't fancy all the dressing up. There were lots of people off my course not there. One had actualy emigrated to Australia before graduation. :D
 
Went to an ex GF's, there terribly boring. Wait in line as hundreds of other students walk across a stage, hear someone give a brief "inspirational" talk, job done, takes about 3/4 hours if your at a decent uni, longer if your at a poly with a large population.
 
Ceremony details

Ceremony Date:
Mid July at just after lunch

Location:
Canterbury Cathedral

Its £40 if i want to go with guests, you get two tickets.

I guess i probably should go.
 
Probably best to go, if only for your folks (that's what I did). In-fact it was the first time they had laid eyes on each other for about 8 years. How nice! hahahaha. Expect it to take forever and be as boring as hell.
 
It's a bit uncalled for that so many unis will charge you for attending your own graduation, you'd think after charging fees for three years they could have squirrelled some of it away to give you a ceremony without extra expense.

I went to mine and left immediately after the ceremony as I was going on a short holiday, it was just about worth going to but if I'd missed it I doubt I'd have cared. The pictures for the parents were about the most important thing.
 
semi-pro waster said:
The pictures for the parents were about the most important thing.
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I think that's the point really, I went to see my gran who lives on the other side of the world and my my picture with the fake scroll in gown and square hat in her room ! I don't even have that picture ! lol
 
Our graduation was the January after we finished uni, so it was an excellent chance to catch up with people and see how they were getting on out in the real world. The university also holds the graduation ball at the end of the week so it is an excellent oppertunity to re-live those student days one last time. I certainly don't regret going even if the ceremony bit is more for your parents than you, hell they helped me out for years so it was the least I could do.
 
As soon as they told me it was going to cost me a load of money just to have my photo taken and feel a right fool in a gown i decided not to go, I didn't miss anything good and have never regretted it.
 
The ceremony is worth it, but paying through the teeth for a fancy photograph isn't.

Just go, take your own pictures. It's not as if you get to do it every day now is it?
 
I didn't bother, my mum didn't mind not going/having a pic, my dad didn't even mention it and I had no desire to go, I should've got a first and I messed it up and 'just' got a 2:1, already had a job so it doesn't matter but didn't feel like celebrating a 'failure' so to speak...

Don't regret not going, and don't think I ever will regret it, but who knows.
 
Actually, i don't remember being asked for money for anyone of them, only money for hiring a gown and hat + photo money.
 
I'd say go anyway. It really would be good to get the photo of you graduating. Parents would love that kind of photo of their kid finishing uni, and it's the kind of thing you show your own kids years down the line :)
 
I didn't go to mine. It still cost me to not attend for 'admin fees'.

I wasn't going to shake the hand of someone that didn't know me dressed up in some pretentious outfit.

I don't feel I missed anything. My parents may have felt a little peeved though that I didn't go.
 
Graduation isn't a day for you, it's a day for your parents to be there and be proud that their son/daughter has grown up.

That's my understading of it, I didn't really enjoy mine.

KaHn
 
Waste of time and money, as they charge you for lots of things. skip it if you can, was forced to go to mine :(.
 
i didn't go to mine, i have a job the week after my last exam, i got a call from a mate, that morning, asking where i was and whether i was coming, didn;t have a clue the ceremony was that day..

i got the certificate in the post the following week..
 
If I ever have to go to one my parents can pay if they want a photo, as I don't really want to go to one.
 
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