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Originally posted by Gattigap
Future ceremonies -- for sixth grade, or HS, or college, etc -- simply don't compare in terms of personal attention. Somehow, "All BSEE grads please stand" lacks the same emotional punch.
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'pends on the degree. At my undergraduate school, the degrees were conferred
en masse by school and then by level of degree --- so there were buttloads of people standing when it came time to confer the BAs from the School of Arts and Sciences, as you say. When they did the LS, they had all the newly minted JDs stand up to polite applause, and then the handful of LL.M.s (same response), and then its
one S.J.D. recipient --- a guy who'd been in law school for like a bagillion years. When he stood up, the entire law school erupted in cheers and Arsenio hoot-hoot-hooting (this was the early '90s, mind you). Because all the JDs were cheering, the rest of us figured this guy must have been some kind of legal stud-boy, and began cheering also, almost a standing O. Probably the best day that guy had ever had the entire decade. He might have even gotten laid that night for the first time ever.
Of course, if I had realized then exactly how much of a wank-off an S.J.D. is, or even how little one can trust a newly-minted JD's choice of idols, I would have cheered somewhat less for him.
