# High school graduation ceremony; is attendance really achoice?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 10, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-graduation-ceremony-is-attendance-really-achoice/212444 "2003-11-10T18:49:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-school-graduation-ceremony-is-attendance-really-achoice/212444/41 "2003-11-13T04:40:19Z")

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I went to my high school graduation, my class was teentsy, so it was more like a small group of very close friends celebrating a rite of passage, a really great experience. Plus, I designed and painted the backdrop which turned out _incredible_, if I do say so myself ;), so 'twould have been a shame not to go.  
On the other hand, my university undergraduate class had something like five thousand kids. They practically _begged_ us not to sign up to walk. Which I gladly did not do. Walk, that is. Celebrating with a small, tightly knit group of close friends is one thing, but being herded around like a bunch of cattle in a crowd so huge that no one will ever recognize you, and of which I knew maybe ten people, total, was not my idea of a good time.

~mixie

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