Fake Graduation

Yesterday was graduation… robes, funny hats, and a long sweaty ceremony. My friend Allie and I are not technically graduating until December of 2009. She is completing her student teaching in the fall, and I am traveling to Ecuador where I will be studying Spanish and taking a history class. We didn’t want to miss out on all of the festivities so we decided to fake graduate. We used our four years of top notch Taylor education to infiltrate the most sacred of all academic ceremonies... and graduated ahead of our time!

After months of planning… ha, yeah right! I borrowed a cap and gown, Allie wore my mom’s old gown from her master’s education, and we fit right in. We now had the appropriate attire, but we needed a place to sit. About ten minutes before the ceremony began, we convinced the maintenance guys, to set up two chairs in the front by the stage, where all of the grads would walk by on their march in.

It was perfect! We got to greet all of our friends, who were surprised to see us sporting the garb, as they walked to their seats. During the awarding of diplomas, Allie inserted my name (aloud from our seats) at the appropriate time with the engineering grads, and I returned the favor when her time came with the biology department. At the conclusion of commencement, we flipped our tassels, exchanged high fives, and exited with the rest of our class to pictures outside.