Today was my university’s fall graduation ceremony. I am now the proud recipient of a bachelor of science degree in accounting. The ceremony went off without any major hitches. I did manage to knock my own cap off while trying to move my tassel from right to left. However, I feel that this was almost expected by people who know me.
Congratulations Harimad-sol! That’s fantastic.
My graduation is next Monday (They’re building a new auditorium on campus and it didn’t get completed for our graduation, so we had to go to the Atlanta Civic Center).
I’m getting Bachelor of Science in Information Systems. Oh, and I’m 42 years old. I love the pain, I guess, because I applied to graduate school.
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Congratulations to you, Enright3!
I’m not going for graduate school yet, but I am staying for another bachelor’s degree, this time for finance with a concentration in economics.
I was dreadfully envious of some people’s academic regalia. It was fancy.
I am not really bragging with this thread (OK, I am), at least not in the sense of, “I have a degree and you don’t, neener neener!”(if anyone takes it that way) I just didn’t think I’d make it through, and I am so pleased and grateful that I did.
Congratulations to both of you! 
Thank you!
Damn… time flies. I remember two to three months ago you were saying you’d graduate soon but it’s still kind of snuck up on me. Congratulations.
That offer still stands even if the situation isn’t what it used to be, by the way.
Ever proving my lack of knowledge of money areas, I am wondering what in the hell the difference between a degree in accounting and finace with a concentration in economics would be.
What other concentrations in finace are there? Aren’t they all the same thing?!
Seriously, though, congrats to you!
Thanks! Well, my university offers a finance degree, but they don’t offer just a straight economics degree. The economics concentration replaces some of the upper-level finance courses with economics. I don’t know why they do it that way. Economics is also considered a business discipline here, though I understand that other colleges may consider it a social science.
Accounting is for being an accountant (I’ve been up since six a.m. so this strikes as perhaps not as obvious as it might be at some other time) and finance is for “acquisition and use of funds.” I already know how to acquire and use funds (I’m sometimes too good at the use part) but not on the scale they mean, I suppose.
Aesiron, thank you, and we’ll see. I’m learning not to plan ahead these days.