Should I wait around for my Graduation Ceremony?

random1337

Basically I'm thinking of heading off to Canada first week of September on a work visa as I have no job lined up here. My Graduation Ceremony is the last week of October however. I was thinking of giving it a miss but I'm not sure....maybe I should delay Canada for 2 months?

What do you guys think? Will I regret not going to my graduation in years to come?
Or is it just an over-hyped day that I shouldn't worry about missing?

Thanks.

Hande hoche!

Get your grandfather to send you a video clip of him at the graduation.

I am pie

I regret going to my graduation ceremonies and can barely remember them. A complete waste of time and totally underwhelming event.

A Greedy Algorithm

Go to your graduation.

In 50 years time you will be able to look up at the picture of you on the wall dressed like a tool and wonder how different your life would be if you just went to Canada just 8 weeks earlier.

BeerWolf

And miss your opportunity to wear an open back robe and expose your buttocks to the audience as the classic cliche'd prankster!?

whiskeyman

May depend what you're graduating from.
Some crazy 8 year doctorate, or a 3 month online gardening course?

Menas

I enjoyed mine.....had a good meal and a hape of pints. But I would not be putting my life on hold to attend it.
Go live life and not be hanging around waiting to shake the Chancellors hand.

Bio Mech

Its a day for your parents really. I personally got F all out of any of time but my parents seem to enjoy it.

LizzieJones

random1337 wrote: »

Basically I'm thinking of heading off to Canada first week of September on a work visa as I have no job lined up here. My Graduation Ceremony is the last week of October however. I was thinking of giving it a miss but I'm not sure....maybe I should delay Canada for 2 months?

What do you guys think? Will I regret not going to my graduation in years to come?
Or is it just an over-hyped day that I shouldn't worry about missing?

Thanks.

If your destination is Toronto I would say you might want to wait until after the Toronto Mayoral election on October 27. The less you hear about Rob and Doug Ford the better. Trust me on this.

random1337

whiskeyman wrote: »

May depend what you're graduating from.
Some crazy 8 year doctorate, or a 3 month online gardening course?

4 year engineering degree

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

Go to your graduation.

In 50 years time you will be able to look up at the picture of you on the wall dressed like a tool and wonder how different your life would be if you just went to Canada just 8 weeks earlier.

I'm detecting sarcasm however being/not being in Canada in September may be the difference of landing your dream job, finding the woman of your dreams, getting hit by a bus, etc. You never know how things unfold!


And to the rest of you, I'd appreciate some serious answers..

LizzieJones

random1337 wrote: »

And to the rest of you, I'd appreciate some serious answers..

Mine was serious.

spurious

Bio Mech wrote: »

Its a day for your parents really. I personally got F all out of any of time but my parents seem to enjoy it.

This. Especially if they did not go to college themselves.

whiskeyman

Serious answer - go to Canada and enjoy yourself.
It'll only cost you money staying about and forking out for the gown / photo etc...
You'll get your piece of paper anyway, and can have a 'postponed' dinner & drinks with those who helped you (family and friends) either before or when you return.

Best of luck with Canada and the job hunting.

random1337

LizzieJones wrote: »

Mine was serious.

Okie I retract my statement and aim it at everyone bar you!




So guys the general consensus is that I should give it a miss?

random1337

whiskeyman wrote: »

Serious answer - go to Canada and enjoy yourself.
It'll only cost you money staying about and forking out for the gown / photo etc...
You'll get your piece of paper anyway, and can have a 'postponed' dinner & drinks with those who helped you (family and friends) either before or when you return.

Best of luck with Canada and the job hunting.

Good advice thanks. It will cost me waiting around. And I suppose if I really wanted I could hire out graduation attire when I get back and have loads of photos taken for the relatives!

LizzieJones

random1337 wrote: »

Okie I retract my statement and aim it at everyone bar you!




So guys the general consensus is that I should give it a miss? Your satirical replies make me not so sure..

Ultimately it really is your decision in the end. Think it over for a few days.

Bio Mech

random1337 wrote: »

4 year engineering degree


I'm detecting sarcasm however being/not being in Canada in September may be the difference of landing your dream job, finding the woman of your dreams, getting hit by a bus, etc. You never know how things unfold!


And to the rest of you, I'd appreciate some serious answers..

If you cant do both I would skip the grad. Have a cake at home or something if you want a little photo op once you get your scroll.

FTA69

I forgot to go to my graduation from UCC. I was working as a bouncer in town and while on the door I was wondering why everyone was walking around dressed up to the nines on a weekday evening. I only copped on when I noticed a load of people from my classes and lectures passing me by in groups. It's a load of sh*te and certainly not worth waiting two months for. Especially two months you could be rampaging around Canada having the craic.

dundalkfc10

I never went to mine, Went over to England where I was at Uni for it, but went on the piss instead and just met the ones I hung about with that night in town

Waste of time

kingtut

It's a waste of time, I had 2 of them and only went to please my family.
Cost a fortune to get the photos and rent the gown also! :eek:

pickarooney

Skip it. They'll probably charge you a few hundred quid to rent a stupid cloak for an hour.

floggg

The event itself is a lot of ****e and you won't miss out on much.

But your parents probably will miss out on a pretty big moment. I know mine did everything they could to help us all through school and the college and it was a big de for them.

I would never have wanted to deprive her of that.

I had a good piss up to with the classmates afterwards so there is that to look forward to as well.

Knex*

You won't miss much, and you'll probably find it harder to source a job in late October, than you would in September.

I'd be seriously considering skipping it, if I was you.

The only thing you'd be missing out on is the final 'session' with the class, really. Other than that, I do think its a thing the parents appreciate more than anything.

Edit: More I think about it, the more the job thing would have me getting to Canada asap and skipping the graduation, OP.

Came quite close to heading over myself, but doing America for a year first. Best of luck, and I hope all goes well for ya

miss no stars

Skip.

My mum loved it and was gushing about the music and the speeches and yadda yadda yadda. I took the photos, went for dinner with the family, then went out that night. Not a bad night, had a good time, but I don't think I'd hold off on emigrating just to hang around for 1 day. I don't like how the photos look FWIW, wish I'd asked to have a look at how they were turning out on the camera and could have fixed my hood which looks like it was choking me.

Stone Deaf 4evr

I had 2, only went to the first one, as someone else said, its more for your parents really. you wont miss a whole lot by skipping it and you'll not see 98% of your classmates ever again anyway.

The Cool

I had two as well. For my BA graduation, this is pretty much what went down -
-up early to get ready (may not be a big deal for you if you're a guy)
- at the university an hour beforehand, sat through a 2-hour ceremony, then a few photos with my friends afterwards
- 40 euro for an AWFUL photographer's photo, 50 for the robe
- dinner with the parents (best part of the day)
- waiting around for everyone else to be ready to go out for drinks
- because everyone else had traveled back from different places, they were all wrecked and most of them fecked off to bed around midnight. So there were 3 or 4 of us sitting in Supermacs before 1am wondering what had become of the big reunion we'd all been looking forward to.

All in all, a bit meh. If you happen to still be around at the end of October, go to it, but don't wait about for it because it's really not that exciting at all.

Ficheall

I skipped both of mine even though I hadn't anything better to be doing, and don't regret it.
I'd go to Canada, without a shadow of a doubt.

Ficheall

Also, I would like to take this opportunity to say, The Cool, I ****ing told you so :P

The Cool wrote: »

Ficheall wrote: »

The Cool wrote: »

That ****ing French department. I'm doing a MA with them, and I have a test, worth 25% of my mark, first thing the morning after my Graduation. All through my years of BA French, they planted tests and essay submissions the day after balls, Paddy's Day, during RAG week, and now, they ruin my graduation. I am devastated. BASTARDS!!!!!!

My advice: Skip the graduation - it's a tedious pile of ****. Skip going out getting pissed off your tits. Do some study, do well in your masters, which the ****ing French department has you doing, and you can do all the graduation crap next year when you have a Master's which one could argue actually means something, unlike the degree which they'd give to just about anyone who wandered in off the street.

Skip the graduation? Tedious pile of ****? Is it strange that I'm proud to be graduating and want to be a part of it along with all my classmates, in whose company I've spent the last 4 years? Yes, the MA grad will be a bigger deal, but a much smaller event. Never mind the fact that it's as big a thing for my family as it is for me. I'm doing graduation, no question about it.
Will go and talk to the lecturer this week to see what we can sort out.

The Cool wrote: »

I had two as well. For my BA graduation, this is pretty much what went down -
-up early to get ready (may not be a big deal for you if you're a guy)
- at the university an hour beforehand, sat through a 2-hour ceremony, then a few photos with my friends afterwards
- 40 euro for an AWFUL photographer's photo, 50 for the robe
- dinner with the parents (best part of the day)
- waiting around for everyone else to be ready to go out for drinks
- because everyone else had traveled back from different places, they were all wrecked and most of them fecked off to bed around midnight. So there were 3 or 4 of us sitting in Supermacs before 1am wondering what had become of the big reunion we'd all been looking forward to.

All in all, a bit meh. If you happen to still be around at the end of October, go to it, but don't wait about for it because it's really not that exciting at all.

The Cool

Digging up a conversation from 2011... LITTLE bit creepy Ficheall!

c_man

Don't go. I went to my degree one, crap day and everybody is out to fleece you (how much of a racket is the cost of renting robes?). Skipped my masters one and don't regret it one bit. Go to Canada

NSAman

Hated mine, spent all day fighting with the parents as they wanted official pictures and I hate having me pic taken. Photos cost a fortune as we had little money at the time, still see them at home and cringe.

Could ya not fly over for a day or two in October?..;)