[VIncymon]

'07. There was this girl I had a huge crush on I wanted to go to the ball with. She refused 5 times.. said she couldn't pay for it.

Two days before the ball I got a date though. The thrill of that rilled me up so much that I actually had fun that night.

Now if only I could channel into that energy again


Mark you, what I had was a date, as in here today.. out of state tomorrow (haven't seen her since). And to top it off, i was never able to get a date from the girl i originallywanted to go out with, even long after the ball passed. Eventually I had to realize it was time to call it quits (i'd hate to come off as desperate).

Oh well, I'm over her now. Over them both.

 

[mardy423]

I didnt go to mine, just went by the school the following month and picked up my diploma.

 

[gopherinferno]

I wish I hadn't gone, really. It was pointless. Exciting just because of the atmosphere, but it was really long and boring and sweaty and annoying and depressing.

Two of my friends went (they didn't go to school with me) and it felt good for my classmates to see me with my friends, proving I was a real person with a life, even if I didn't have one at school.

I was also kind of happy because I said something to the boy that had a crush on me for two years, and I was always too terrified to ever reciprocate. I'm not even sure if he heard me because I just said it and walked past, but it felt good. I knew I'd never see him again, so...whatever.

 

[imt]

Stupid question but,

are you required to walk on stage alone or is there a line of students going along with you to get your diploma, just curious?

Someone mind answering this, please?

 

[Jrock]

Usually you walk on stage alone but your fellow students are standing at the bottom of the stage waiting for there name to be called so they can go next. Is your SA really that intense?

 

[coldmorning]

It was a long time ago but I remember it being rather uneventful. We got herded around like cattle and were given fake rolls of paper. But I don't remember it being embarrassing or anxiety provoking.

 

[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

 

[complex]

I graduated in 08 it was honestly the best and worst day of my life.
Getting the thing I had slaved over and thought I would never get finally I held that in my hand.
Worst thing is not knowing what was going to happen once I left High School and leaving the ones that loved me. Plus my father whom I had not seen in months showed up just because my step sister was graduation he was smashed and my gradparents also showed up but did not show any intrest in caring for me just a picture op for them I guess.

 

[Fairyxo]

We don't "graduate" secondary school in the UK, we just leave, thankfully.

 

[AndyLT]

We don't "graduate" secondary school in the UK, we just leave, thankfully.

What do you mean? No ceremony or something?

 

[Desperate]

I didn't atten my high school graduation ceremony because of the fear of getting another panic attack. I used to get them really bad in high school. Plus, I thougt to myself, what's the point? Not that many people know Diana, to cheer for her anyways.. It's not like my family would cheer for me either. But I do kind of regret it. The school is not that far from my house and I could hear all the seniors cheering and I could even hear the names being called out.. I heard my 2 friends' names being called out while I was outside in my back yard crying because I felt like a loser who didn't have enough friends to celebrate with.. Horray for class of '07...

 

[numero1]

I was happy to get out of high school, but when my name was called, no one clapped for me, obviously my parents did along with the principal, but no one from my classes clapped or acknoledged me.

Remember those high school meetings in the cafeteria, or the gym, or the auditorium?...
I sat in my own row by myself and no one ever bothered to sit next to me.

 

[Fairyxo]

What do you mean? No ceremony or something?

Nope. We leave for study leave for a few months, come back, take our exams and then only return once to get our results (or, if you don't want to return, get them posted to you).

That's it.

 

[Kwtrader]

i went and it was boring. pretty much just going through the motion get your diploma on stage get picture taken outside and go home.

 

[entropy]

My high school graduation was so lonely, and my college graduation next week will be too. I felt so alone and invisible at my HS graduation, I cried like a baby afterwards. But I took comfort in the fact that my family was there, the people who really matter to me, and the people who stood by my side through thick and thin. It is nice to have friends and have people to chat with, but I seriously think that friends are overrated. I didn't like the people at my high school and they didn't like me (for stupid racist xenophobic reasons), so I suppose my experience was different than yours.

 

[imt]

Usually you walk on stage alone but your fellow students are standing at the bottom of the stage waiting for there name to be called so they can go next. Is your SA really that intense?

Thanks for answering me and yes I'm super nervous. I can't get over it. I'm thinking of not even going.

 

[Hot Chocolate]

Nope. We leave for study leave for a few months, come back, take our exams and then only return once to get our results (or, if you don't want to return, get them posted to you).

That's it.

Same here.

But I couldn't be bothered man. I was thinking so much about going to college...but I didn't make it

Right now, I am in sort of like a community college, hopefully I'll be able to enter into a government college next year.

 

[Kelly]

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.

Sounds like mine. Plus, at mine someone in line ahead of me messed up the alphabetical order when we were sitting down. Leave it to graduates from my high school to not know the alphabet. I was mortified at the time, but it's funny now.

Have a nice day,
Kelly

 

[solasum]

I only went to mine because of my mom. I wouldn't have gone otherwise because it's a ridiculous ceremony that brought back no good memories of high school.

I was nervous to walk on the stage, too, but it was over before I knew it. No one except for your parents pays attention to it anyway.

 

[numero1]

I went. The ceremony was boring, pointless, and silly. After the ceremony I just got depressed because I was reminded of how little I mattered to my "friends" because no one called me and I wasn't invited to anything.

I bet my senior class had something going on, and NO ONE called me and told me what was going on. That's how pathetic I was. I remember I would eat my lunch in the hallways sitting down on the floor and doing my homework, but at least I didn't have to do any homework at home.