Graduation - Necessary to attend?

fluppet

I got a letter about graduation today. It says the fee is Eur 111 and that 'in order to graduate' I must complete the enclosed Notice of Candidature, etc.

I'll be doing a Masters in the UK next year, and have no interest in attending my graduation ceremony anyway. Do I still have to complete the form and pay the Eur 111? By 'graduate' (as used in the sentence 'in order to graduate') do they simply mean be part of the graduation ceremony? In the information sheet it says 'Graduands may under special circumstances be allowed to proceed to their degrees without presenting personally. Normally such permission is granted only to candidates... who submit reasons with their application in writing for non-attendence in person which seem to the Senior Proctor sufficiently urgent'.

Clarification would be appreciated.

If you don't want to go you could just tell them you'll be out of the country. I didn't want to go to mine but it was OK in the end.

The cynic in me tells me that more people attending means more money, hence the rule that you 'must' attend.

wesclark

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Cantab.

I don't think you can collect your MA after 3 years if you don't go to commencements.

Crash

Really? thats a bit of an oddity - that due to DU statutes or some bizarrity along those lines?

AlanSparrowhawk

I have no interest in pomp or ceremony nor standing around college taking photographs but the TCD commencements are a sight to behold. People with mad hats and sceptres and all types of crazy stuff goes on. I urge you to attend, you probably will not be involved in anything like it again!

JavaBear

Why would you not want to go?

Cantab.

AlanSparrowhawk wrote: »

I have no interest in pomp or ceremony nor standing around college taking photographs but the TCD commencements are a sight to behold. People with mad hats and sceptres and all types of crazy stuff goes on. I urge you to attend, you probably will not be involved in anything like it again!

My biggest problem with the ceremony is that they have to explain everything as they go along. Why can't they just do the ceremony properly instead of all this needless explaining. I mean we're graduates after all. (aside: I think the Pope was talking about something like this recently but I can't articulate it as well as he can!)

I've been a a couple of commencements ceremonies in my time -- the whole affair seems rather cut-down and you can't help but feel you're on a conveyour belt. I mean if you leave your glass of cheap red wine down for more than 5 minutes in the Atrium afterwards, chances are it's been taken as a sign of "hurry up and get out of here".

Also, the gowns are plain wrong: they're cheapo versions of the proper DU gowns made en-masse by a very efficient company who have little or no regard for the formalities and traditions of the university. But sure if the scholars don't even wear their gowns to Commons anymore, what's the point you might say? Stick us all in 10-storey blocks at the end of campus for 4 years and ooh look -- out pops a graduate, delivered through the gates of College Green covered in a thick slimy film.

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Cantab. wrote: »

Also, the gowns are plain wrong: they're cheapo versions of the proper DU gowns made en-masse by a very efficient company who have little or no regard for the formalities and traditions of the university. But sure if the scholars don't even wear their gowns to Commons anymore, what's the point you might say? Stick us all in 10-storey blocks at the end of campus for 4 years and ooh look -- out pops a graduate, delivered through the gates of College Green covered in a thick slimy film.

For what it's worth, my parents commented at how reasonable the price of hire of academicals has become since my brother graduated a decade ago.

fluppet

I have informed the Proctor that I will not be attending as I am doing an MSc in the UK, however they say that I still have to fill out the form and pay the fee.

I can't make the class one.

Will be back in January for them

Crash

To be honest I think thats a disgrace. Even if you don't attend you're still expected to pay 111 euro for the privelege of graduating. Pff.

gaybitch

A girl my sister knows forgot to send back some form or other and didn't get to graduate with her class. She had to do it a few months later. Stinger.

Going Forward

Going Forward wrote: »

To be honest I think thats a disgrace. Even if you don't attend you're still expected to pay 111 euro for the privelege of graduating. Pff.

That piece of catskin isn't free you know!

Peslo

Myth wrote: »

That piece of catskin isn't free you know!

Are ya serious?? catskin?

Krusty: Welcome to the noble family of skilled Krustaceans. You will now go back to your home towns and do kids' parties, swap meets, and all the other piddling crap I wouldn't touch with a ten foot clown pole. Now, come and get your catskins -- er, I mean, sheepskins.

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Peslo

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