Dressing up in special clothes, then sitting with a bunch of bored people who wish they were somewhere else while some supposedly important person drones on about how much you've grown and developed, how this is a super-important milestone your life, how you can achieve greatness if you keep to the values you've learned, yada, yada, yada. Then you get your three seconds of very local fame as your name is called out over the PA, and you get handed a piece of paper.
Why go through the tedium of all that if it's not important to you, and it's not important to anyone you care about? "It's the normal thing to do and everyone else does it," is never a valid justification for doing anything.
When I finished university, I didn't go to the ceremony to collect my BSc certificate, and I've never regretted that.
IIN that I missed my graduation
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Dressing up in special clothes, then sitting with a bunch of bored people who wish they were somewhere else while some supposedly important person drones on about how much you've grown and developed, how this is a super-important milestone your life, how you can achieve greatness if you keep to the values you've learned, yada, yada, yada. Then you get your three seconds of very local fame as your name is called out over the PA, and you get handed a piece of paper.
Why go through the tedium of all that if it's not important to you, and it's not important to anyone you care about? "It's the normal thing to do and everyone else does it," is never a valid justification for doing anything.
When I finished university, I didn't go to the ceremony to collect my BSc certificate, and I've never regretted that.