I have a previous degree, so going to some special occasion AND graduation is not something I'm interested in. I just want to go to graduation to get up on stage, grab my fake diploma, and walk away! lol
Apparently I'm the only one (that I know of at the moment) who's not going to the pinning ceremony. The teacher was all disappointed and thought I wasn't going because I'm going on vacation or something instead. I said, "No, I just don't care." She was saying how special it is and how I should go because I worked so hard. Yes, I HAVE worked so hard. And that is why I'm going to graduation and not wasting my time to walk around holding a lantern, get pinned, and watch everybody's silly pictures and paragraphs about themselves on some slide show. The whole thing seems way too cheesy for me. HAHHA. I told my non-classmate friends about it, and they totally agree with me.
I definitely going to mine. I go to a diploma school and pinning is graduation. Maybe I'd feel different if I went to a community college or a university but I have 100+ years of tradition behind me and I'm going to carry that on and enjoy the final moments of my class completely together.
Well, of course....what does that have to do with graduation?
The piece of paper is just a piece of paper. I can get a replacement one...or order a transcript any time I want. It's just paperwork.
I guess it's a difference of importance. You value the sentiment. Others, like myself, value completion and finality represented by the diploma. I really don't care that I didn't get mine on graduation night. I do recall that it bothered some. I was just glad to get in my truck and drive away for the last time....or what I thought would be the last time. Yet I'm back...
I guess it's a difference of importance. You value the sentiment. Others, like myself, value completion and finality represented by the diploma. I really don't care that I didn't get mine on graduation night. I do recall that it bothered some. I was just glad to get in my truck and drive away for the last time....or what I thought would be the last time. Yet I'm back...
I just see them as two very different things.
Graduation from nursing school is once in a lifetime. It's the school awarding me my degree. This is the official time of completion. I'm don't see this aspect as sentimental...but I do appreciate and respect the tradition and formality of the ceremony.
In addition to that, graduation is a time for my class and I to celebrate our accomplishments, which we worked hard together to achieve...so this part is sentimental, but I can see that folks may or may not care about this piece depending on their relationship with their fellow classmates.
The diploma is a piece of paper to hang on my wall. Truly, I anticipate that's all it will be. If I ever need to prove my degree...it won't be my diploma I send in, but an official transcript.
So apparently, everybody's fighting about what to wear to the pinning ceremony. One of my classmates said that I should be happier with my decision not to go. HEHEHE.
I'll be walking with my classmates (those who ARE going to graduation). They divide people by majors, not everybody at once. Even if it was everybody at once, I wouldn't care. It'd be shorter than sitting through slideshows and speakers during the pinning ceremony. I'm not having anybody force me to go. I don't feel obligated to go. It's an optional event... so as far as I see it, my decision to not go should be respected and not be pushed on me trying to lead me on a guilt trip. In fact, I told my parents I don't feel like going and they're completely fine with it. Whatever. Glad I'm not the only one here.
Graduation is sentimental and special enough for me. I've been through it once and I'm going through it again... proudly. Cap and gown are all I need.
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I'm the opposite- going to pinning but not going to graduation. I too have a previous degree.
Why do you want to walk across a stage with a bunch of people you don't know, only to take a fake diploma and shake the hand of somebody you've never met?
I'd rather go to the pinning ceremony and enjoy what we've worked so hard for with people that were with me along the way.
Same here. I don't have a previous degree though and I am only going to the actual graduation for my Dad's sake. If it wasn't for it meaning so much to him I would skip the formal graduation and only go to pinning.
We also pick who pins us in our ceremony, most are picking their kids or husbands to pin them. We don't wear uniforms or anything and no oil lamps or anything like that. It's at a different venue which we pick. The college graduation is the entire college class that's graduating for various degrees and called in Alphabetical order and intermixed. I am not looking forward to that at all :|
The college graduation is the entire college class that's graduating for various degrees and called in Alphabetical order and intermixed. I am not looking forward to that at all :|
My college isn't huge. And I heard graduation is shorter than the pinning ceremony.
I wasn't going to attend graduation and was just going to do pinning. But I thought about it and I'm the 1st one in my family to graduate from college, so I'm doing both. And pinning well of course we all know how important that is for nursing students. I would rather do both because you can't go back in time if one day you regret not going. I think why not? You worked your ass off, why not celebrate?
At first I didnt want to go to mine. But we had a memorial kinda for our instructor that died a few days before graduation. And then found out another one of our instructors had terminal cancer. It was rough but fullfilling
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
My college isn't huge. And I heard graduation is shorter than the pinning ceremony.
Mine isn't huge either. I think 1000-1300 graduating. That's about 950-1250 too much for me. LOL But like I said, it's really important to my dad so I will suck it up and do it. I am the first one of his children to graduate college and he just lost his son last month and so it's just my sister and I left. It really means a lot to him and it won't hurt me to do it. He is attending both the college graduation and the pinning ceremony.
Yet I'm back...
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Well, of course....what does that have to do with graduation?
The piece of paper is just a piece of paper. I can get a replacement one...or order a transcript any time I want. It's just paperwork.