Whether to walk or not?

[slave601]

[Northbigmuddy]

[champcaller]

[Greenhead22]

[country_20boy]

[420 racin]

I walked for my BS at State..waste of time, should have stayed home and got the party started early. Went to my wife's for her Masters..another waste of time but she wanted to, so i was forced. I say for a Masters it might be a bit different, but for a BS I wouldn't do it if I could do over.

[LODI QUACKER]

I didnt, would not today. FWIW.

[jacksbuddy]

Hmm, I must be the only person on this board who says to go through the ceremony and walk. It is a big deal for your family. Remember, you did all the work, but they gave you all the help.

Of course, I didn't exactly graduate 'Magna Cum Laude' or 'Suma Cum Laude'. I graduated more "Thank The Laude". Heck, when I got my first degree at MSU, I noticed that there were letters (white paper) in among the degrees (ivory parchment) handed out to those of us in our caps and gowns. The letters "regretfully informed" the recipient that they did not earn a degree. I was never so glad to get a degree in my life. (No lie, seeing a letter recipient cry in an obscure corner of the Hump will break your heart.)

[novacaine]

I walked but it was because George HW Bush came to speak at the ceremony.

[deerhunt1988]

[Wildfowler]

I don't even know where my diploma is.

[Hunkerdown II]

I walked in respect to my parents. However, that was almost not the case. Ours was on the football field. A few of us decided that we would go do some drinking while sitting on the stage the night before. Well, one case led to another, something caught fire, police showed up, we barely got out of police custody in time to make the walking thing.

All that I remembered was how proud my parents were for me graduating, and how concerned my dad was that I was still drunk at noon the next day.

Don't waste your time unless jail is a possibility.

[rogerthat]

this is the most educated group of idiots i have ever seen......walk!

[Denduke]

When my DD graduated from high school prolly 30 family was there. When she graduated from USM on deans list nobody came but me and da wifey. She worked all thru school and college. The walkin thang kinda was for both of us. She was so proud that I watched and I was so proud of her accomplishnent. Ereybody's situation is different.

[rjohnson]

I walked because it was Millsaps and I was damn proud to have made it through four years there. I know it's not Harvard but it's far from a cake walk. Our speaker was Jim Barksdale and the whole ceremony is really unique for our school. At a big school I would have only walked because my family would have wanted me too.