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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
EG, if that's the case, I personally wouldn't have gone. Like many people have said, then I guess it depends on:
1) How close you are to people in your faculty: Is it tight knit, and a small circle? Remember they may be stuck doing family stuff so they may be too busy to hang out with you.
2) Do you want to go for that sense of closure? For me, because I had so many more years of professional exams and indentured servitude ahead, it was really just the 1st Intermission - wasn't a big deal to me.
3) What's your school like? Can't remember which school you're at but I know for some Eastern Universities, a trip into Convocation Hall has it's own special meaning. At UofC you troop into a gym, the same gym where my High School convocation was, so really, it had zero "moment" factor to me. Now if there was some sort of grand hall / Knights Templar ceremony / gee whiz ceremony, I would have gone as I would not have wanted to miss that.
Regardless, congrats!
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1) Well if I had graduated the year that I was supposed to graduate, I would have been very close to the grad. class, but I am graduating late, so I don't really know anyone. So, they are tight knit, but I am just not a part of it.
2) I don't think I need closure. When I walked away from my school after my final exam, it felt like that would be the last time I would ever be there, and I was okay with that.
3) I go to Carleton and they apparently have a special area set up for each ceremony. They divide it by program so I wouldn't have to sit through hours of complete strangers from other programs. From the ceremony that I went to last year for my friends grad though, it was really nice.
I doubt I will end up going. I think I am done with it and more than ready to move on. If my parents would have been there, I might have considered it, but since they won't be there, there's no point.
Thanks for the thoughts guys.