Crying at pinning...

pattylpn54, LPN · Jun 17, 2008

i just got pinned at our graduation ceremony this past saturday ~ june 14th, and yeah i cried, laughed, and sweated bullets!! i'm a 54 yr old grad and it was the greatest day of my life besides the birth of my kids ~ and a lot harder!!!

iv therapy course next week to get thru, then the nclex and then i may be able to breathe and sleep again.

tears of joy, relief, and pride. we started with a class of 24 and 19 of us graduated - the 5 that didn't were all under 21 yr old! we made it!!!!!!!!!! :heartbeat:yeah: :redpinkhe :yeah: :up:

NFB2008 · Jun 17, 2008

I think I will cry tears of joy when I pass NCLEX too! That will be such a HUGE relief!

jen7393 · Jun 17, 2008

I just had my pinning ceremony Friday afternoon. I was so happy that I actually cried (tears of joy obviously) after getting pinned. I felt like such a dork though. I was just so happy to achieve such a big goal in my life. I think I also felt so much stress and tension leave my life at that moment--like nothing else could go wrong to keep me from graduating. I clearly wasn't thinking about NCLEX at this moment though. Anyway... I was just wondering if anyone else cried at pinning or after pinning or because of pinning...? Or am I just a big sap?

I cried very much! As I was walking around to the stage, I saw buttons on my husband and son's shirts. My husband had buttons made of my grandparents that I lost several years ago. He made one of my dad and I lost him right before I started nursing school! It wasw a very sweet gesture, but it threw me over the edge when I saw them.

ZooMommyRN, ADN, RN · Jun 17, 2008

My husband pinned me last night and even he got misty eyed! So nope not a sap at all, it's a huge thing to accomplish! CONGRATS!!

Dawn, RN · Jun 18, 2008

I will gladly be called a dork for crying at pinning!

I thought I might...then as it got closer, I thought I wouldn't because of all the stress. But when I walked in that auditorium and heard the music and everyone was standing and clapping and cheering....I was totally overcome. You could feel the pride in the air!!! I cried for the next 15 minutes. Then things kind of calmed down during the ceremony and I was crying again as I was leaving and my daughter was waiting along the aisle to give me a hug and kiss. It was such an emotional evening!!

The next time I cried was off and on for 48 hours while I waited for my NCLEX results. And the flood gates were even harder when I found out I passed!

Everyone works very hard during NS and when all that relief comes flooding in when you realize YOU ACTUALLY MADE IT, it is not unusual to cry your eyes out!

Good luck to everyone on NCLEX!!

CT Pixie, BSN, RN · Jun 18, 2008

I have my graduation ceremony and pinning this coming Sunday :yeah:

I can bet my life I'll be crying. And I'd also be willing to be so will the majority of my classmates. Hell, we were all misty eyed when our Program Director showed us a video she had made with beautiful pictures and words of wisdom and encouragement the day we took our Exit Exam!

I'm sure my mom will be bawling like a baby but thats her, she likes to cry so the attention is on her. She tends to be a loud, obnoxious cryer, just to draw attention on herself.

My mother-in-law on the other hand will surly be crying tears of pride for ME and not to put attention on her. (I truly feel that my MIL is much more a mother to me than my real mother..another story for another time) My MIL was crying when I told her I finally decided to try nursing school again, she cried when she found out I passed my Exit exam and she cried today when she found out I landed a GPN job already!

Yup, sap or not, I'll be crying..already know I'll have tissues stashed somewhere on my uniform

ellifant · Jun 18, 2008

I cry just imagining myself walking across that stage and even dream about which instructor I will pick to actually "pin me".:w00t:I can't wait for that day. I have even made a pact with a fellow student that on the day of that last exam, we will have a limo waiting at that door for us( with a red carpet of course!) :lol2: Just to savor that moment and FEEL the pressure just peel from our shoulders!

Finally2008 · Jun 19, 2008

I will be graduating in December! We don't get a pinning ceremony :confused:

But, if we did, I would surely be crying!! I teared up just reading all of your responses....

pattylpn54, LPN · Jun 19, 2008

Why no pinning ceremony?

Finally2008 · Jun 19, 2008

To tell you the truth, I have no idea. It's a shame, though, because I think it is such a tradition for nurse graduates to go through a pinning ceremony. This inspires me to investigate further and advocate for future graduates to have the ceremony!

CT Pixie, BSN, RN · Jun 23, 2008

Well I graduated and was pinned last night. And guess what...NO TEARS! Just a huge ear to ear smile.

I'll admit, after the graduation cermemony when all the GRADUATE nurses in my class were all hanging out and chatting, one of my best buddies from school came up with tears in her eyes and said, "I can't believe we did it! And I can't believe we won't see each other anymore, day in and day out!" She and I were as different as two people can get but we just "meshed" from the second we met.

I tried to not get teary eyed but it was hard but I didn't cry tears..but they were there, if I blinked they would have flown. We promised we'd keep in touch with each other (we were never really buddies outside school but we were stuck at the hip IN school. We always had clinicals with the same CI, we were always seated with us either next to each other or one in front of the other). Hopefully we DO keep in touch. Funny thing, she and I have the same plans for our futures. Go back to school for our RN and then in a couple of years move to North Carolina. She and I actually want to move to towns that are just minutes from each other.

The second time I teared up is when my 16 yr old daugher came up gave me a huge hug and a kiss and as she cried said "Momma, I am SO proud of you" That was it...I cried like a goon!