How did you feel about graduation?

Not good.
That is because my parents deemed it more important to chop firewood instead of attending the ceremony.
On the other hand, they would probably have embarassed me if they attended.
I guess everything has a positive side :D.

I was angry at graduation. My entire family (parents/siblings) were out of state on vacation. I was sort of hurt that no one bothered to even come to my commencement, that I didn’t even go, myself. To this day I know that at least half of my graduating class is somehow under the impression that I mysteriously didn’t graduate, despite doing exceptionally well all though school. I did throw a massive graduation party at my parents’ house, though. That part was fun.

High school graduation was basically a big party. College graduation I only went to because my mom wanted me to. Otherwise it was just me dressing in a stupid outfit sitting in the blazing sun and getting burnt so some douche with bad jewelry could hand me a piece of paper.

High school graduation was fun, parties, I hugged some teachers I liked but it’s going to be awhile until any other graduation.

High School Graduation was boring. I didn’t appreciate it very much and if I had a chance to go again, I wouldn’t.

I didn’t enjoy my high school graduation. I felt that it was pointless because I didn’t even get my high school diploma (we all received cases to hold our diplomas in) and it was ill prepared.

Happy for high school graduation to get over with because I knew I had a one-way airplane ticket from Illinois back to Las Vegas where I had moved from two years earlier. I couldn’t wait to get out of Illinois at the time and be back with my friends I grew up with. I was sad I didn’t get to graduate with my friends I grew up with from grades 2–10 in Las Vegas.

Very happy when I graduated college with high honors. I was able to get good grades in my mid to late 20s with two toddlers at home. Not very easy to do.

Mine was so boring; I just wanted to get out of there. My parents were there and all the other parents were hugging their kids except mine. I think dad hated it and wanted to just leave. All the stupid hugging and crying went on in the yard of the school.

After high school graduation, I spent 5 full days partying.

It was one of the most fun times I’ve ever had in my life.

I just ended grade 10 last year. My graduation was okay. I really didn’t feel any difference after it was all over. I hated the school I was in because everyone was so into themselves. Also this town that I live in everyone thinks they are better than everyone else around them, they get everything they want and so on.
I was glad to be getting out of that school which I had only attended for about 2 and a half years.

After High School Graduation, the days were miserable and the nights fun. The days I was still hounded after my family to do this and that until I left for college. The nights were spent sneaking out either to bang or to party.

I was very unhappy in high school. My father had me live with his parents for the first 12 years of my life, then remarried and brought me from Nashville, Tennessee to just North of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to live with him and my new step-mother and step-brother. I had to leave everyone I knew and go to live with people I didn’t know, in a place I didn’t like.

Dad thought I was just being obstinate and use to beat me. I really was very unhappy until I started college, then I made new friends who accepted me, I discovered that I wasn’t stupid, and I really started becoming what I was meant to be.

Grad school was ok, I suppose, but I was working for GE full-time and going to my masters program full time, so I was a very busy lil camper.

If the VA approves me for tuition assistance, I will start working towaard my PhD in Management and Leadership this Fall. Wish me luck! : )

(I’ve put ages next to mine below as I’m in the UK and the “school” terms don’t travel… we also don’t use the word graduation for when we leave high school, so I hope I’m answering with the right information!)

High school graduation (age 18) was such a relief as I’d had a hellish last two years at school (ostricised by my year group for my link to someone else they didn’t like)... I also had really short hair and kept being mistaken by strangers for a boy, so I couldn’t wait to grow my hair but felt I needed to be somewhere new to do it.

University graduation (age 21) was one of those “it’s the right time to be moving on” times, where, although university was thoroughly enjoyable, (and I now had long hair – whoop) I was ready for what would come next.

Graduating from my (optional) post-grad year was wonderful! I’d done a teacher-training year, which is incredibly heavy going, and bloomin’ hard work… I knew a month into the course that there was no way I was going to follow the path of full-time classroom teaching, but I also knew the course would do good things for me (I acquired a heck of a lot of my current life skills from that year)... Completing the year was such a triumph.

Ah, it’s nice to look back – Thanks @wundayatta!

My high school graduation was fairly mediocre, because of problems with my extended family. Then I was nearly late to the ceremony because of said extended family. The ceremony itself was okay, but afterwards I said goodbye to some friends who I didn’t think I’d see for a while and then I went home. There were plenty of graduation parties I could’ve gone to, but it was late and I had to entertain the extended family as well. Mentally, however, I was in a really good place and could not have been more excited for college.

High school graduation had goodbyes to friends and opened the door to getting out of a not so good family situation.

College graduation was my ticket out of poverty.

Still a little raw it was a little less than a year since my fathers death and he would have been the one person whom I would have loved to have been there aside from my mother who was there alone. It was kind of bittersweet, after my mother and I had a good cry when we came home because we both missed him terribly.

Haven’t done it yet. I told my daughter I won’t graduate until she finishes her degree. I am still waiting…

I was glad to leave both high school and uni, glad to be moving on.

High school graduation was great because I was one of the first in my family to do so and I was happy to be done with that part of my life.

My first college graduation was also great for pretty much the same reason.

My second and third college graduations weren’t really that big of a deal and I didn’t even go to them because I felt like it was just more of the same at that point and I had other things I’d rather be doing.

I graduated a semester early from high school on a Friday and the next Monday I was in college. I got invited back to attend the big Senior ceremony but after a semester of college I was not interested in the pomp and circumstance. College graduation was a pretty big deal and a lot of fun!

High school graduation was boring. I was tired and I would have fallen asleep except it was so hot that I couldn’t fall asleep. I sweated through my gown and could barely walk because the Astroturf was ridiculously hot and the heat radiated up through my shoes. Girls weren’t allowed to wear pants or shorts so I was wearing a silly little dress under my gown. I wasn’t near my friends at all. It was a complete waste of my time.

As for the actual leaving of high school, I was relieved. High school was a terrible time for me. I spent all my time balancing between the popular kids and the ones who got picked on so that I was right in the middle. The rest of the time was spent doing homework. I had few friends and almost no social life. When I got to college, I practically wept with relief. Now that I am about to graduate again, I will not be attending the ceremony because, once again, I will not be near my friends, I do not care about the commencement speaker, I will be hot and it will be longer than my high school one.

As for being done with school forever, I am so happy. I hate school. Now I can learn something useful out in the real world.

@KatawaGrey

Yes, you will, but don’t forget that reality can be a very hard taskmaster and the lessons learned will not always be to your liking.