- Nobody quite understands how they come up with the list of names "graduates" published in the program. If the student is actually there walking, I understand. But the student that walked last semester, but didn't defend or file this semester? Or the student who is a 5th year masters student whom nobody has seen in months? I plan to walk next spring, but if I haven't actually defended by commencement, I won't walk unless I'm damn close to defending.
- Psychology is a recent addition to the College of Science. I don't know what college they were under before (social sciences?), but they should be booted the hell out of CoS and back to wherever they came from. This has nothing to do with whether or not I or anybody else thinks psych should be classified as science. There are 23958203465 million psychology students, and their friends and family are FREAKING OBNOXIOUS at commencement. For every other department there was polite to sometimes rowdy applause, a few yells maybe for students, but NOBODY wants to listen to prolonged screaming and yelling for all 23958203465 million psychology undergrads.
- Do not wear stripper heels to graduation. Heels, if you can walk in them, sure. Cute, colored, or even sparkly ones, sure. But the stiletto heels with a 2" platform and 6" heel in bright red? The point of getting a degree is so that you don't have to wear stripper heels. I couldn't believe how many girls wore suuuper trashy shoes.
- At graduation here, each student's name and degree, along with a quote/message of their choosing is displayed on the screen as they cross the stage. Most of these are some variation of thanking mom/dad/etc or a quote about education from some dead person. One CS student proposed to his girlfriend! There was a ton of cheering when people noticed it. I was bummed the name reader didn't pause to get an answer! I am generally opposed to public proposals, but that was pretty cute.
All ridiculousness aside - Congratulations, Grads!
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