Annoyed

[ladymoreta]

Ugh, I don't remember it being 4 hours! It was just MIL and me, and we got there in time to get into the auditorium, but we had terrible seats. So glad you got to go in for the second half. Guests weren't allowed at the hooding ceremony before graduation, but they showed the video of it.

[SoonerTexan]

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I'm sorry...I forget. Are you at UTSW? If so, I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. The overflow room SUCKS huge. We got there at flipping 7:30 AM on the day of DH's MD-PhD graduation (bigger deal than white coating, granted) and stayed until past midnight (dinner at 10PM...??), just to make sure I didn't have to end up overflowed. I'm so sorry!

Yes we are at UTSW. Dang that is a long time. I know they have tix for graduation and hold it elsewhere, but there is no way in hell I will be overflowed for that.

[L.Jane]

Yes we are at UTSW. Dang that is a long time. I know they have tix for graduation and hold it elsewhere, but there is no way in hell I will be overflowed for that.

In 2008 for graduation, it was held outside and we actually had pretty decent seats. As long as it doesn't rain, or is ridiculously hot (chances are, May 30th, it just might be) its very nice an everyone seems to fit. Like I said before, I think everyone was in satellite rooms for the hooding. Then you moved to a little cookie reception, then outside to the actual graduation. It was a long day.

[scarlett09]

They don't hood them at the same time they walk across the stage to accept their diplomas? What exactly happens during the hooding ceremony that you all aren't allowed to attend? How many people are a graduating class? This is all very interesting, as DH graduated with about 150 and we fit into a local theatre (no tickets, so we had my 2 sets of parents, my ILs, SIL and DH's grandmom). The hooding happened as they all came up on stage to receive their diplomas. The graduation ceremony was over in 2.5 hours. It is really neat to see how schools do things differently.

[DCJenn]

The USUHS graduation is awesome- they all graduate wearing their dress uniforms- but first they wear the graduation robes while they're getting the diploma and then after they get the diploma they come back to their seats having changed into the full uniform with their new rank- they then do the military part of it. It's all very official and crisp. The Navy band plays and lots of big wigs (military and civilian) show up.

Jenn

[BonBon]

Sooner, that doc grew up here (Upstate NY). He died in the last month or two and I remember being shocked that he died in a motorcycle accident. Very sad.

Sorry about the ceremony. Seems like they could get it together a bit more so everyone can actually attend in the same room!!

[Tenacious_D]

Btw, my parents know that I would leave them too

Oooh, I would have been pissed about being in some janked up overflow room... I didn't know my husband for his white coat ceremony but for his graduation his mom scheduled her flight to leave pretty much right in the middle of the ceremony. She calculated it to last only an hour!?! So she didn't even get to see him walk the stage, I think she made it through the first speech and had to catch a cab to the airport. I, on the other hand got to hood him so I got the best seat in the house for the entire ceremony, right next to him! It was pretty cool. But once again, boo on overflow...

[Thirteen]

My situation was similar to Mrs.BrainSurgeon, in that I didn't know DH until MS3. When he graduated, I drove myself, parked, got amazing seats and took my time.
His family showed up late, made a scene by loudly stepping over people and searching for seats (which I had saved in advance).
I didn't get to hood him, but I wasn't super late and didn't have to run on someone else's schedules. I like order and planning, so being at the mercy of someone else and their perpetual "lateness" drives me nutso.
(...She said, as she awaits the birth of her first child and realizes that promptness will go out the window.)