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Post by Feral on Jun 6, 2008 20:20:51 GMT
Harvard had JK Rowling give the speech at their graduation this year. Lucky bastards. She did a brilliant job too. I would have been in floods of (probably not very manly) tears. Video in the link – it really is worth a watch: harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2008 1:33:31 GMT
I don't think I'll go to mine unless someone really good speaks at it. Like JK Rowling.
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Post by Becky on Jun 7, 2008 12:10:37 GMT
I didn't go to mine. Actually it hasn't been yet even though I finished a year ago, but it'd be too late to register now anyway if I was actually interested in going. I think they're good it its the case that you're seeing everyone for the last time, and its like the end of your journey together, but I didn't know anyone that would be at mine since I did distance learning. I go to congregation sometimes for the students I work with but its deathly boring (and cold - its in January). Bill Bryson does practically the same speech every time too. I wish we had a more exciting Chancellor. He's supposed to be at the bbq I'm going to this afternoon and I couldn't care less, yet its supposed to be exciting and an honour that he's there.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 7, 2008 12:52:48 GMT
At UCL it costs £25 per guest at your graduation, and £15 to attend yourself! Charging family members to come is fine, but charging a student to attend his or her own graduation is a bit off I think. And then there is robe hire. I got my degree classification yesterday, in case, anyone's interested, I got a "2.1 with a distinction in spoken Russian".
I wasn't that bothered about going to the graduation, the whole thing scares me a bit, but my parents really wanted to see me graduate, so I'm going. I suppose it'll be good to see my friends and lecturers for one final time.
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Post by Rad on Jun 7, 2008 13:07:51 GMT
All universities charge for graduation. I went to mine, it was pretty boring, but it was good to see everyone graduate. Because I went to the arts college of my uni, it was really fun to see all the crazy art students who'd walked around in bizarre clothes all year all scrubbed up and smart. Robert Winston had just become chancellor so he gave us our degrees but someone else did the speech and I have no idea who it was or what it was about.
I never go to see any of the students I teach graduate though. As a part-timer I can get away without going, and I don't really want to sit through those ceremonies very often.
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Post by [james] on Jun 7, 2008 16:06:33 GMT
Mine is next month and is £12.50 a ticket I think. Nobody famous went to my uni besides gay rappe Q-Boy but I somehow doubt he's going to turn up and make a speech.
I'd happily skip graduation (especially considering how I'll be three seats down from someone who knew fucked up my group project) but my parents really want to go and it means a lot to my mum so I'm quite happy to sit through a few hours of dullery in exchange for them paying out huge sums of money over the past three years. On the one condition they don't speak to any of my friends whatsoever.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 7, 2008 17:20:40 GMT
The speaking to friends bit is what I'm mostly worried about.
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Post by somethingbiblical on Jun 8, 2008 12:41:42 GMT
It's not the same but I'm officially finished school now and feeling quite odd. We have the 'Ceremony of Achievement' which is supposed to be the leavers ceremony as well but the head teacher hates us now because we're going to Glastonbury instead. We had the prom the other night, which was a much more fitting tribute to the end of school than sitting around in school all day while they don't give me any prizes or in any way thank me for saving the school from closure.
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Post by thelovelykate on Jun 10, 2008 11:24:17 GMT
Mine turned out to be quite good but I had a lot of stress before hand as it was only 6 months after my parents split up and I thought it might be a bit of a nightmare.
The gown is pretty hideous but I actually thought I looked rather fetching in my hat. Unfortunately my sister tricked me into posing for a horrible 'smiling over my shoulder' cliched graduation photo which she blew up to about A4 size and now has displayed in her house.
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