Life as an adult citizen is beginning. It may not be your favorite way to spend a day but the graduation ceremony is not something to miss. The day after feels different because it is different. You made the symbolic walk to the next chapter of your life in front of classmates, teachers, and, hopefully, some people who care especially about you. Those in the audience bore witness to your accomplishment and your new status. You did it! Yes, you are just as much a graduate if you never make the walk but those who pass it up often express regret later.
Without the pomp, without the silly costume, the walk, and speeches, school just kind of merges into life. Graduation day also is a gift for family and friends who have supported you financially or emotionally during school. Your graduation may be fulfilling a longtime dream of parents and grandparents and relatives both living and dead. Your folks may have saved, taken out loans, and mortgaged the house to get you through. They may have let you live at home into your 20s, fed you, and given you the moral support they could.
And yes, most of the ceremony will be pretty dull. But it's just one day. And it's a day you'll remember. It's a feeling you'll never forget. You need to go. And if you're the first person in your family to graduate college, you don't have a choice in the matter — your attendance is mandatory. If you still need more convincing, here are all the reasons you should attend your graduation ceremony, even if you don't want to. School is ending and your career is about to begin. This is the last school experience you'll have, so you won't want to miss it.
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The Details: The commencement ceremony for graduate students will be Friday, May 4, at am in Stegeman Coliseum and the undergraduate ceremony will be at pm in Sanford Stadium. Request Information 1. ZIP code. Phone Number. Leave this field blank. UGA Spotlight on the Arts offers virtual events. Even at an event that often feels rote and stale, there is room for genuine emotion, such as when a mother and son received their degrees at the very same ceremony earlier this month. And for first-generation college students as well as their families, the reading of a name at graduation can be the jubilant end to a long and uncertain journey.
George Loewenstein, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested to me that graduation ceremonies are designed for long-term meaning-making, at the cost of short-term discomfort. According to this model, when audience members and participants reflect back on graduation ceremonies, memory should downplay the dullness and focus on the triumph, however brief.
Perhaps that dullness is even useful. There might be a long-term logic to graduation ceremonies, but that still leaves the discomfort of the present. The name of every student at Rice University, in Houston, used to be read at the school-wide commencement, but after the student population grew in the mids, this became unsustainable.
We were having some issues of students in these black robes sitting out in the sun. We were having EMS cases of people fainting.
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