[copper]

Mine was okay. I would of been contempt not going, but my parent's wanted me to go. They never made my brother go, but he graduated early. He was taking some college classes when he was a senior which counted toward his HS credits so he only had to go one semester of his senior year. No one cheered me and I didn't even say goodbye to anyone. After I shook all the parent's hands I got the heck out of there. I could care less about those people that create hell for me. They never gave any crap about me. It was like being paroled from prison.

 

[copper]

Hot and boring.
395 Graduating Seniors and their families packed into a non-air conditioned gym for 2 hours, sitting on wooden bleachers and metal folding chairs.

It was lucky it was a cool day when I graduated. It is usually very hot and humid that time of year in southern Iowa.

 

[copper]

It was miserable, but in a different way.

My last name has a long history of being mispronounced. It's Laux, but most people think it's "Lau" or "Law", when really it's pronounced "Locks".

At the graduation rehearsal, one of the teachers who was reading off all the names went through the names to make sure the pronunciations were correct. He mispronounces my last name (no surprise), and a lot of people shout "Locks!", which I was surprised that so many people in my class actually knew me. The teacher says "Yeah yeah, 'locks', whatever." That offended me, and I had a bad feeling of what was to come.

Graduation day, I drive over to the building myself. The building is actually a basketball arena for a major local university. I lined up near the podium, and the woman there tells me to smile. Yeah right, I knew what was coming. Of course, my last name gets mispronounced. The crowd corrected him, but he didn't bother, and it's obviously too late because it was captured on people's camcorders. I quickly walked over to get my diploma, shook the principal's hand, and walked off.

That happened to me and my friend in college. During rehearsal he pronounced my name and my friends wrong. We corrected him and he said he wouldn't make that mistake again. Well guess what. He mispronounces my name and my friends when he called us up to the stage to get our diplomas. :lol