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Did you attend your high school graduation ceremony and go to after graduation parties?

Yep! Doesn't everyone?

It was an incredible time....good riddance & I'll miss ya rolled into one.

southerngale wrote:Yep! Doesn't everyone?

It was an incredible time....good riddance & I'll miss ya rolled into one.

I sure do. Some people got standing ovations. I got one too. After graduation, I did a lot of partying. The next day, I went to college to start school.

Yep, it was the greatest day of my life.

I think i did. After 30 years your mind gets fuzzy or was that from the afterparty?

Yup, 4 months ago. The ceremony was a bit dull sometimes, because everyone had to listen to a story told by one of their teachers and some stories took too long. The parties afterwards were great though.

I attended my graduation ceremony but didn't go to any parties afterward. I wasn't into partying and getting so drunk that a person couldn't walk straight or speak . Of course that was over 32 years ago for me.

southerngale wrote:Yep! Doesn't everyone?

It was an incredible time....good riddance & I'll miss ya rolled into one.

Same here! I was so happy to get out of that place and move it on down the road. I vaguely remember an after-grad party... I think... was I there?!

Went to graduation, no partying, was happy just getting out of there!

its hard to go to a graduation party for yourself if you havent graduated yet...

No to both; I went to the HS office and picked up my diploma in person a week later. The "ceremony" turned into a peace-freak "round dance", and I knew about this ahead of time, so why bother?

College is another question: I not only went through the "Pomp and Circumstance", but pigged out and got wasted each time (BFA, MFA).

Yes, I went to my kindergarten (1956), grade school (1964), high school (1968), Bachelor (1972), and Master (1980) graduation ceremonies plus the small family parties after each. I wouldn't have missed them for anything!

On the other hand, my husband went to his high school but neither of his college graduations.

We've both been to our daughter's preschool (1984), high school (1998), Bachelor (2002), and Master (2004) graduation ceremonies plus small family parties, too -- although I never asked (nor wanted to know) what the "real" parties were like that she went to after the family parties.

Interestingly enough, the only graduation I attended which did not feature Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" was my own high school ceremony. Instead, we processed to the "Triumphal March" from Aida.

I didn't go to any HS activities, including graduation or proms. I did go to the reunions and laugh at all the idiots I went to school with who thought they were the greatest thing going only to see them years later fat and bald.....MGC

Dee Bee wrote:Yes, I went to my kindergarten (1956), grade school (1964), high school (1968), Bachelor (1972), and Master (1980) graduation ceremonies plus the small family parties after each. I wouldn't have missed them for anything!

On the other hand, my husband went to his high school but neither of his college graduations.

We've both been to our daughter's preschool (1984), high school (1998), Bachelor (2002), and Master (2004) graduation ceremonies plus small family parties, too -- although I never asked (nor wanted to know) what the "real" parties were like that she went to after the family parties.

Interestingly enough, the only graduation I attended which did not feature Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" was my own high school ceremony. Instead, we processed to the "Triumphal March" from Aida.

Interestingly, I never had a elementary or middle school graduation. I went to my college graduation. Did not party afterwards.

Dee Bee wrote:Yes, I went to my kindergarten (1956), grade school (1964), high school (1968), Bachelor (1972), and Master (1980) graduation ceremonies plus the small family parties after each. I wouldn't have missed them for anything!

On the other hand, my husband went to his high school but neither of his college graduations.

We've both been to our daughter's preschool (1984), high school (1998), Bachelor (2002), and Master (2004) graduation ceremonies plus small family parties, too -- although I never asked (nor wanted to know) what the "real" parties were like that she went to after the family parties.

Interestingly enough, the only graduation I attended which did not feature Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" was my own high school ceremony.

Instead, we processed to the "Triumphal March" from Aida.

They laid Aida on us at Washington University (St. Louis MO); at the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn NY) I was surprised to hear Handel's Hail, the Conquering Hero Comes as the processional music.

I went to the ceremony... but didn't go to the after parties. At that time, I wasn't into the party scene.