did y ou all go to pinning ceremony?

pebbleworm · Apr 17, 2007

hey you all,

did you all go to the pinning ceremony? do you think all the grads should go to the pinning ceremony? what was it like?

i did and i wouldn't want to miss it. you can skip the graduation ceremony but never the pinning.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Apr 17, 2007

100% of us went to the pinning and only about 30% of us went to graduation. I went to both.

The pinning was held off campus and was not a school-sponsored event. Majority voted to wear our white uniforms and, get this.........nursing hats, even though they didn't wear them in clinicals.

It was a very nice ceremony and I was very happy and proud that night to have accomplished what I did.

queenjean · Apr 18, 2007

Wish they would serve alcohol, then it might be tolerable:idea:
For social situations that I know I will find highly annoying, I find a flask of Bailey's Irish cream is a handy thing to have. Add a little to your coffee, and Viola! Everything is much more enjoyable!
I'm totally serious.
I actually probably will go to the pinning. First of all, it is right in the middle of an on-site class we have to take; so I would actually have to actively avoid it.
Secondly, I just met my classmates for the first time last week (we are a mostly on-line group) and I found them very enjoyable. I did not bond at all with my LPN schoolmates, most of them were intolerable. I'm probably older, more mature, and not so annoying myself these days.
In any case, I doubt I will have my hubby and kids come, as it is a long trip (280 miles!), but my parents live nearby, and since I've never gone to my graduations, they've never attended one. So I'll probably invite them. It will mean more to them than it will to me; but that's okay. Raising a kid is such a mix of grief and joy (and I certainly caused them a fair share of grief) that they deserve a bit of celebration like this.

moongirl · Apr 18, 2007

For social situations that I know I will find highly annoying, I find a flask of Bailey's Irish cream is a handy thing to have. Add a little to your coffee, and Viola! Everything is much more enjoyable!
I'm totally serious.
yes, this will be highly annoying..I have never met a more irritating group of people in my life, and I was leaning towards a margarita in a to go Pepsi cup with a straw.. move along folks, nothing to see here...
would skip it but it would break my family's hearts not to go

abundantjoy07, RN · Apr 19, 2007

Our class is getting a little out of hand. We were asked to fill out forms with our favorite color,song, movie,etc. I feel like I'm in high school. I'm sick of school and just want to be done. We are all wearing white scrubs and lighting candles. There is going to be a slide show with our baby pictures and nursing pictures and some clinical pictures.

Are you serious?!? Wow. I still don't know what we are doing for our ceremony. But all that you described is like high school. If there are pictures and we have to wear our clinical outfits I'm sooooo not going. That just adds to reasons of why I'm not that interested in it.

I'm proud of my college and I've always wanted a degree from it so that is what I'll be doing. Nursing school has been a miserable experience for me and that's why I'm ready to be far away from the misery of it all.

If I went to the ceremony it would be fake. Fake smiles, fake speeches...

I'm just counting down the days...23 more days to go! Now that calls for a celebration!

MikeyJ, RN · Apr 22, 2007

I won't graduate until next year; however, the School of Nursing is on a totally different calendar than the university, and I will happen to finish in August '08. There isn't a university graduation until December, and I doubt I will go to that considering I will probably be working as a staff RN somewhere, and would be senseless to go walk across the stage. So I will probably go to my pinning ceremony, even if it seems really hokie and pointless -- because I want to have some recognition for the 5 years I put in for this damn degree!

DTC · Apr 22, 2007

I loved our pinning ceremony! All of us, together one last time,,in our whites, with our caps and candles,,reciting our pledge to the audience. My friends took pictures and everytime I look at them I smile. I wouldnt have missed it for the wolrd!

BlaineCM · Apr 22, 2007

I won't be attending my pinning ceremony in May. I love all of my classmates, they are great. However, my closest friends aren't doing it so neither am I. I will be attending the graduation though. We can either attend the big university graduation or the college of nursing graduation. I already attended the big university graduation when I received my first BS. This time I will attend the College of Nursing graduation.

BlaineCM · Apr 22, 2007

What happens at the pinning ceremony besides having someone pin you? I know many of you mentioned speeches and slide shows.

RN1263 · Apr 22, 2007

I'm not going to either...thought I would, but it's become such a hassle I would rather just celebrate MY own way. A few students were bummed that I'm not going, but the cons outway the pros therefore...I'm not going! I'll still be just as happy!

Jules A, MSN · Apr 22, 2007

f I went to the ceremony it would be fake. Fake smiles, fake speeches...
I'm just counting down the days...23 more days to go! Now that calls for a celebration!

Yup from what my friends said that is exactly what happened. Don't forget the fake hugs and tears, lol. :lol2:

queenjean · Apr 22, 2007

Omg, I hope it isn't a bunch of cheesy crap, I don't know if I will be able to keep a straight face and not roll my eyes continuously. I am not going to sit though a big slide show, a candle holding pledge, or anything else like that. I hope it is just a pinning, maybe a little speech by our lead instructor/program organizer along the lines of "yea, you worked hard and now you are done, good job ladies and gentlemen." And then cookies. I'd be all for going to the bar afterwards or something to celebrate; but I'm not going to get dressed up, smile sweety, get teary, and tell everyone that I love them. Not my style anymore. It's sweet in a young gal, not so sweet in an old lady.

Maybe I'd better find out before I go. The big sentimental show is just not my can of beans. I'll leave it to those who enjoy that sort of thing; but I'd have to be three sheets to the wind with an ipod on to be able to tolerate that sort of scenario. Our program is not a cutsey college program. It is hard core, everyone has kids and works at least part time, and is a more utilitarian type of program. We are all there to do the LPN-RN thing and that's it. No socializing together outside of school, no hanging out outside of clinicals, no one is rooming together or anything. I'm assuming our pinning ceremony would reflect this, but I guess maybe I should make sure before I go.