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I’m curious to hear about everyone’s experiences because I remember my convocation speaker telling us to “reach for the stars” but then got lost in a tangent about their dog’s grooming routine… 🐶🤔 Was I the only one who felt like yawning through the whole thing? Or maybe your convocation speaker left you feeling absolutely inspired and ready to take on the world! Let’s share our most memorable moments and see who had the craziest, funniest, or most heartwarming convocation speaker of all time! 💭💫
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For my undergrad, we had two well known comediennes who’d attended the university in the late 70s. They reminisced about how they used to smoke weed in the student centre.
I remember absolutely nothing about my grad school convocation but the silly hat and an orchestra playing the theme to Raiders of the Lost Ark as the grads left the building
How the year we graduated was a palindrome (high school, 2002)
Not a thing from undergrad and I didn’t even attend my grad school graduation. I celebrated though!
i was drunk and or stoned both times i graduated college. i didn’t give a damn about anything but collecting my very expensive piece of paper
I didn’t attend commencement but I did attend the department convocation. We didn’t have a specific speaker but several members of the faculty spoke before bestowing certificates in their particular group. They all had such wonderful things to say about their group of graduates. I also will think fondly of being able to write a little blurb for my professor to read before giving me my certificate. I thanked my parents, my partner, my friends, and the faculty for unwavering support.
I had a blast.
Quite literally nothing and I was stone cold sober
All three of my graduations were totally forgettable. My undergrad, I got a member of the board telling us not to forget to donate to the school on our way out. It felt like the real speaker had cancelled last minute or something.
I don’t remember anything because we couldn’t hear them. The audio was terrible and echoey. Most of the graduations I’ve been to, you can barely understand anything anyone is saying.
I didn’t go to the ceremony so nothing
I’ll be honest and say that I don’t remember it. I do however remember the welcome to uni speech because it was very long and done in 2 languages at the same time and I doubt there was any actually useful information.
The superintendent decided to throw in a quote from a Natasha Bedingfield song (Unwritten) in a poor attempt to relate to the youths. (Edit: this was a high school graduation)
I feel like my college grad speaker was a woman, but I sure wouldn’t take that bet with a gun to my head.
I was dead sober, but zoned all the way out until it was time to walk.
i literally graduated with my bachelor’s on sunday, so everything is fresh lol. for the actual ceremony it was extremely hot (university is in california), our dean told us he was leaving to become a chancellor for another university, and apparently my university has a school anthem??? and it kinda went off??? but yeah. i don’t really remember the speeches other than the general gist was “you’ll go on to do great things!” or something like that.
Absolutely nothing. Well, I do remember it was hot as hell and the whole thing seemed unnecessary and too long.
I remember the ceremonies dragged on far too long and I wished the speakers had time limits like at the Oscars.
Nothing. I was high af during all my graduation ceremonies.
My college graduation speaker with the Three Cups of Tea guy. Pre-scandal, of course. I ‘m sure he said something inspiring, but I have zero memory of details. It was a nice commencement overall, no negatives; other than we had to be in the gym instead of outside because of weather concerns that day (it was Portland, Oregon, so it was always a possibility, but still, bummer, beautiful campus outside, but stuck inside the gym. And it didn’t even end up being bad weather but they had to call it early). But it’s a funny story now to say it was him.
My high school had a couple of students give speeches. They were generic, high school (smart high school, but high school) level inspiring speeches about the future. The students d id write them, but they had to be finalized and approved by the school, so more likely than not even if they weren’t totally generic at first, they’d become that way to get approved.
I remember being grateful that his speech was short.
For undergrad- Tavis Smiley. For Grad school- Will Ferrell singing “I will always Love you” lol. Personally, I remember the sense of disbelief that I was finally done.
It was too hot to focus. May in Louisiana is bad enough, we were on the field at Yulman stadium at Tulane and the sun felt like it was inches from my head. I wanted to die. Despite there being dozens of speakers, I didn’t hear a single word. I was concentrating on not melting into a puddle
Nothing. I just wanted my diploma and to get the hell out of there.
Undergrad? Not a damn thing because they were cripplingly boring.
It was 98 degrees and we were all sweating in our black caps and gowns. They did an award for best professor and the woman who was awarding it couldn’t stop talking. The professor who won go on the mic and just said “thanks”.
The student speaker was awesome, she was a speech and debater so just a really good speaker. She went on to do stand up comedy so I vaguely remember thinking the speech was just super funny, but not inspiring. I was just focused on not passing out from the heat.
I don’t. No clue who spoke at my graduation. It was a stadium full of people, they barely acknowledged the graduates and I was hungover. I only went because my parents wanted me to.
Mine was Sandra Day O’Connor. I enjoyed it. I don’t remember much of what she said but I remember thinking “This is cool”
Mine was hilariously uninspiring. It was one great long cynical speech about how we’re all gunna have a long and hard road ahead of us
Not much. I remember the chairs were uncomfortable and I just wanted to get my diploma holder and leave (we had to come back for the actual diploma a week later). They gave us notecards that spelled out our names phonetically, that we had to hand to someone who handed it to the speaker as we walked across the stage. That’s all I recall from both graduations. Jaeger was involved in celebrating one of them, it’s better going down than coming up.
Nothing.
I dissociated through the entire thing.
Something about seashells.
Nothing at all, not even about my own speech as valedictorian.
Not a goddamn thing
I remember wondering, why the fuck am I sitting through a speech of someone so irrelevant about a completely irrelevant topic when they’ve got a thousand names to get through and I was in the middle of heat stroke.
Nothing tbh
Nothing.
I’ve walked in three graduation ceremonies (high school, associates, and bachelors) and literally blacked out during all of them. I don’t remember a single thing except walking when my name was called. Great achievements and I’m very proud, but don’t know if I would ever do a ceremony again lol
For undergrad, we had the governor of our state. I remember him saying as he was preparing his speech, he was thinking about what he’d want to hear at his daughter’s graduation. It was your standard “go and do great things” speech, bland and inoffensive. And it was mercifully short.
A bunch of my friends graduated the year before me and had a rather famous general (who was an alumnus) that went on a rant about how entitled and ungrateful young people were nowadays.
I blew off my grad school graduation.
I don’t remember much from high school, bachelors, or masters, but I always remember the speeches from my middle school promotion.
One was a friend who had a cheery rhyme about how we will all miss each other.
The second was a classmate talking about how 3rd world countries don’t have the same opportunities as us and it was definitely a shift in mood.
Nothing.
None of it was memorable.
Highschool I don’t remember any of it. College I was too drunk to remember lol
Not a single thing. I imagine whoever spoke at my high school graduation was a local celebrity, but that was in 1998. I went to my undergrad graduation a little drunk still, so I don’t really remember any of that. And, honestly, I only went to my grad school graduation because I went to the undergrad one drunk and felt like I owed it to my parents to go.