Topic: Graduation
started by: Chrissy
I graduated from Albany officially in December 2000---makes me a proud 2000 graduate (yippy fucking doo). When I went to go get my cap and gown in december there was no one there to help me- so you have to pray you buy the right one- in addition no hood (whole point is to get a hood after you get your BA otherwises its like HS graduation all over again) ANYWAY they also didnt have my white tassle for my major (which all of you know was sociology) I was PEEVED!
Now because I was a wonderful december graduate I also get the honor of attending May graduation (oh yippy)- this time I went down to the book store and got my hood and tassle from the dorkus behind the counter and asked "So why no hoods for December graduates" and he says "Its not really a graduation so they dont order them" and I just looked awed at him like "Um NO!"
SO tell me how can that be that I finished up my BA in december and went to something resembling a graduation ceremony but according to the school bookstore it was just smoke and mirrors? This completely diminishes anyone who graduated early from college by telling them that their "graduation ceremony" wasnt really anything more then a bunch of people getting together and looking like their were graduating---also I dont get my fucking diploma until after the "Graduation Ceremony" this May- how fucked is that?
This school has some issues.
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Hell, I didn't get my diploma until about a month ago... I graduated May 2000. But, that one was my fault... something about huge outstanding debts.
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This completely diminishes anyone who graduated early from college...
OR...for people who sucked and didn't graduate in '99 and had to take an extra semester to finish...hehe maybe that's why it wasn't all that. 
If anything thou it was a semester late (they still would have been 2000 graduates just in May instead of December)
But its some accomplishment to graduate early but I reckon that most of the people who were at the december "graduation" ceremony were late graduates.
I am just peeved that in the eyes of the bookstore it wasnt really graduation and not that I am attending the May ceremony (just the recognition ceremony for the soc department) its the principle of the thing....
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This message has been edited by Chrissy on May 08, 2001 at 03:18 PM
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Originally posted by Chrissy:
edit: stupidity
That's a first for detnet....
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Chrissy:
"So why no hoods for December graduates" and he says "Its not really a graduation so they dont order them" and I just looked awed at him like "Um NO!"
That is a fucking load of shit.
I know that I would be seriously pissed off if I was told that.
My uni has divisional graduation ceremonies at the start of the year (Eng and Sci, Health Sci etc..) and a compilation of everyone halfway through the year.
The majority of students graduate at the beginning of the year (which is why its by divisions), and a smaller amount half way through the year (they lump them all together).
They all wear the same things. The gowns, the sash, the motarboard (if you want to).
The only difference is the time, and the size.
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When I was getting my regalia to graduate from honours, the stupid people at the desk tried to sell me the normal pass degree sash instead of the honours one. Idiots. I had to go and get proof that I had graduated from honours. I thought that it had all been taken care of.
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To finish, it is you right to be pissed off at this.
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"A woman is always buying something" - Ovid (43? B.C. - 18 A.D.)
BA and BS degrees are cap, gown and tassel. master's degrees get a hood, and PhDs are velvet trimmed hoods.
they gave us some kind of book that explains all that stuff, but i didn't read it. i was happy enough to get my orange tassle and listen to the freakin surgeon general talk for what seemed like hours. do all the sit, stand, sit, stand, sit, stand, walk, stand, sit, stand, sit, stand, leave stuff on cue (what am i a dolphin?)
but anyway, after an hour of standing outside, an hour of standing inside, getting 400000 pictures taken, 2 1/2 more hours of sitting/standing/walking inside, and the nightmare 20 minutes to get out of the parking lot, the cap and gown and all just got thrown in a box, with the little piece of paper that assured me i had a degree in "FACSIMILIE", and the hundred or so page program where they managed to spell my name correctly. oh boy.
a week later i found out i actually graduated.
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kuru
'dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal desire.'
-robert frost
BA\BS gets a hood with 3 inches of velvet trim along with a cap and gown
Masters degree gets a hood with 3 1\2 inches of velvet trim along with a gown with flared sleeves and a cap (of course)
Phd gets a hood with 4inches of velvet trim along with a funky hat and a the flared gown.
That was the information I recieved in my cap\gown crap
Ok so it turns out my mom is coming up for the recognition ceremony next weekend and she said she would attend graduation also...(that means another ceremony- dont I have better things to do...)Im having trouble figuring out how to get this stupid hood to look (maybe Im retarded 4 years of college and I cant figure it out what have they prepared me for...)
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lets not talk about how I was this close
----><---- to graduating with honors (damn freshman year)
Now how to get mom to not come??
I suppose I could just tell her I changed my mind and don't feel like going---seeing as I already attended how could she be upset?
Bleh
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I went to my honors graduation. Got a pretty medal.
Academic dress for Curtin Uni...
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1.2 Hoods: Colours [Council 25.5.1988]The academic hood, which is worn over the shoulders, consists of a curved draped cowl at the back with panels hanging freely on each side at the front. The colour for the discipline appears on both the panels and the cowl. The front panels are 775mm long with widths varying with the qualifications as shown below. The colour for the discipline extends for the length of the panel. The panels are linked by a small rectangular panel (75mm wide by 63mm high) to the cowl. The University logo (47mm high), embroidered in gold silk thread, is overlocked on to the small panel. In Masters degrees the discipline colour covers the cowl. For all award levels below master the discipline colour lines the inside of the cowl.
When the hood is correctly worn, the panel with the logo should be about 100mm below the top of the shoulder.
The width of the panel by the level of the award is as follows:
Masters degree 142 mm
Postgraduate/Graduate Diploma 142 mm
Bachelor degree 75 mm
Diploma 39 mm (contrast) 75 mm (background)
Associate Diploma 29 mm (contrast) 75 mm (background)The following colours expressed in terms of the British Colour Council Dictionary of Standard Colours, 1951 for Academic Dress distinguishes the disciplines.
Agriculture BCC No 21 Eau-de-Nil
Architecture BCC No 36 Claret
Arts BCC No 147 Smalt
Business BCC No 124 Azalea
Education BCC No 179 Violet
Engineering BCC No 232 Pastel Yellow
Health Science BCC No 193 Powder Blue
Mining BCC No 75 Chartreuse Yellow
Pharmacy BCC No 199 Fuchsia
Science BCC No 100 Spectrum Green
Social Work BCC No 221 Egg-Shell Blue
Mortar boards are compulsory for Masters, optional for Bachelors, and not allowed for Diplomas.
Honours graduates have a thin bar of colour above the university shield.
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"A woman is always buying something" - Ovid (43? B.C. - 18 A.D.)
This message has been edited by masher on May 13, 2001 at 06:33 AM
Turns out my sister wants to come too---all the way from VA (oh god help me) and I even think she solicited my brother to come.
Why did I torture myself with this shit!
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Graduation was long and boring just as expect. Mom gushed, dad didnt show- neither did my brother or sister. It was hot and the president's speech SUCKED, we didnt even have a keynote.
All in all Im glad that shit is over. Until three years from now when I graduate from Law School. Then I get to do it all over again. I wonder if I could convince my parents then not to go...
Hey I'll be a lawyer I'll have decent powers of persuasion by then...maybe
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L'absence est ŕ l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand.
- Comte de Bussy- Rabutin
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L'absence est ŕ l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand.
- Comte de Bussy- Rabutin