At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.
I'll never graduate from collagen.
I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.
I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.
At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.
I graduated from University of Maryland, 1996 - or '97, actually.
I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.
George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.
One of my proudest moments in life was earning the valedictorian medal in high school. I worked so hard for it!
I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
Receiving my first degree was one of the most important days of my life.
I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater. I had a tough time there, left eagerly, and returned rarely.
I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, 'Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.' 'Cause I said I have a degree in 'thee-a-ter.'
I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.
I graduated from high school in 1962.
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
I graduated from the University of Whatever.
I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.'
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.
I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.
I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?
When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!
