Reenee
Jun 12, 2004, 12:13 AM
HA HA! Yes...
My mom was upset when I told her I didn't want to participate in the ceremony. She went as far as telling the counselor about this and I went ahead to tell my side of the story. Long story short, I got my way and college graduation is the real deal.
In my eyes, graduation at my high school is pointless. We practice the march for 2 days which could be done in 1, then we have Grad Night from 10 PM to 6 AM (no, I didn't typo), and while we're half-asleep, we go ahead in there to strut and drag our asses on stage.
What's the point? Here's how I see it: march in, sit, hear some person applaud our efforts on going through school and buying $65 gowns 'n tassles, some girl sings and cries on purpose as she does, another speech, then we go up, shake someone's hand, go sit down, some loooooooooooong speech no one cares about, and throw and pray our caps that they won't land pointy-end first into our beefs called brains.
We don't even get our diplomas. They're mailed to us, for crying out loud.
High School graduation is not "it". You've still got college to do. You're still learning (albeit I'll take the hint from my counselor that the work will be increasingly relaxed) general education, and so on till you reach "it": College graduation.
Let me tell everyone what I heard from my very own counselor: high school grades don't matter if you do things the right way. My grades are low and there's two reasons I why I might've got them:
a. High quality work, half the work done and turned in.
b. Average quality work, all the work done and turned in.
I'm in the former. The grades in high school are bullshit UNLESS you're going straight to a good college or university. It shows very little how you are and shows society needs an overhaul, but let's not go into that because I can't hold my own there. :3
My mom was upset when I told her I didn't want to participate in the ceremony. She went as far as telling the counselor about this and I went ahead to tell my side of the story. Long story short, I got my way and college graduation is the real deal.
In my eyes, graduation at my high school is pointless. We practice the march for 2 days which could be done in 1, then we have Grad Night from 10 PM to 6 AM (no, I didn't typo), and while we're half-asleep, we go ahead in there to strut and drag our asses on stage.
What's the point? Here's how I see it: march in, sit, hear some person applaud our efforts on going through school and buying $65 gowns 'n tassles, some girl sings and cries on purpose as she does, another speech, then we go up, shake someone's hand, go sit down, some loooooooooooong speech no one cares about, and throw and pray our caps that they won't land pointy-end first into our beefs called brains.
We don't even get our diplomas. They're mailed to us, for crying out loud.
High School graduation is not "it". You've still got college to do. You're still learning (albeit I'll take the hint from my counselor that the work will be increasingly relaxed) general education, and so on till you reach "it": College graduation.
Let me tell everyone what I heard from my very own counselor: high school grades don't matter if you do things the right way. My grades are low and there's two reasons I why I might've got them:
a. High quality work, half the work done and turned in.
b. Average quality work, all the work done and turned in.
I'm in the former. The grades in high school are bullshit UNLESS you're going straight to a good college or university. It shows very little how you are and shows society needs an overhaul, but let's not go into that because I can't hold my own there. :3