Graduation, What time is it? Options

[ttugurl]

I'm ordering my invitations online right now and I know the Commencement is on May 13th...THE DAY BEFORE MOTHERS DAY.. which kinda sucks... but does anyone know what time the commencement is for a Mass Comm student? Is it true there are two ceremonies...one at 11 and one at 1?

[Spectatrix]

What ???do they actually call our names and we have to go recieve our diploma? Is it really 3 hours long? Or more like 2?

Well you walk up there and shake hands with your dean and whatnot, but they don't actually give you the diploma there. After graduation you have to trek back to your college's main office to get it. I had to wait a couple of weeks to get mine, actually, because they had to reprint it because my final semester's GPA bumped me up to summa cum laude.

I don't remember exactly how long it was, because it was over a year ago (December '04). Probably closer to 3 hours, though. That time isn't just for the guest speakers and name-calling, though. You have to show up before the actual graduation time and go to the room where they line you all up in order by college and name and you sign stupid cards with your name, degree, and honors (if applicable), yadda yadda. That's probably about half an hour of it.

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Mar 1 2006, 09:44 PM