I was just wondering how seniors felt about not having their names called or walking across the stage at graduation. I realize that there are too many students and it would take a tremendous amount of time. However, do you think that instead of graduating all students at once, that they could maybe have the ceremonies staggered out by college or maybe by a few departments? It just seems that everyone works so hard all of their academic lives to reach this moment and not get individually recognized for it. How do you guys feel about this?

2/1/2006 1:33:42 AM

they are staggered out at different places. i know we(engineers) graduate at different times at mckimmon center. people that have slack majors and do nothing but party dont deserve to walk anyways.

2/1/2006 1:37:30 AM

ummm they do what u just said.

they have one main graduation for everyone. they call out the smart people and the masters.

then you divide into your major at different buildings and thats when you walk across the stage and get that notebook with nothing in it

2/1/2006 1:41:28 AM

I don't think any student has a slack major. I would hope that they have chosen their major because that is what they truly want to do with their life - not because they are not smart enough to have obtained any other degree.

2/1/2006 2:06:05 AM

CSC departmental was so much better than full graduation

2/1/2006 2:06:46 AM

Okay, let me see if I have this straight. At the main graduation, undergraduates graduate collectively? And then they go to a different departmental ceremony where they are acknowledged individually?

2/1/2006 2:11:54 AM

thats correct. there is absolutely no point in going to the main ceremony, especially if its in RBC center. You can't hear shit from the floor or the seats. It's long, its boring, dont do it.

[Edited on February 1, 2006 at 2:23 AM. Reason : ewr]

2/1/2006 2:17:42 AM

LOL skokiaan! I think I'll take your advice! Thanks!

2/1/2006 2:19:23 AM

dont go to the main graduation, its to early to get out of bed and they dont call your name. go to your department graduation which will be that afternoon. your family can see you walk and get your name called out at that one.

2/1/2006 2:20:31 AM

Thanks Mikey. That definitely clears it up for me, and that is exactly what I am going to do. And by the way, my boyfriend has a degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. He is taking over as Director of Engineering at a pharmaceutical company in Greensboro very soon. Just wanted you to know that I think you are going to enjoy your chosen profession. He absolutely loves it!

2/1/2006 2:25:19 AM

Talk with your family and parents and whether they want to go to the main graduation ceremony or not.

I personally opted not to go to mine due to traffic, having to rush to the departmental ceremoney, etc. other things. Another big reason we didn't go ... didn't care too much about the speaker they found for that particular semester. Excellent credentials, but still did nothing for me.

2/1/2006 5:40:15 AM

Quote :

"I would hope that they have chosen their major because that is what they truly want to do with their life - not because they are not smart enough to have obtained any other degree."

I dont really like my major, but like the late dr. Gonzalez said:

"You don't do mechanical engineering because you have a thrist for knowledge, thats for the humanities students. You do mechanical engineering so you make 60 grand right out of school and you can buy a porsche."

pretty much sums it up, wish i was graduating on time

2/1/2006 5:46:28 AM

Do what everyone else does, skip the main graduation, and go to the departmental.

Hell, i'm probably not going to the main graduation for my masters either, you only get names called if your a PHD.

2/1/2006 10:40:44 AM

is there a listing of departmental graduations, or do all departments do it, or do some just do college wide things?

2/1/2006 11:07:16 AM

there is a listing on the graduation website:

http://www.ncsu.edu/registrar/graduation/schedule.html

that info is from fall 2005, the spring 2006 info will be posted as soon as I receive it.

2/1/2006 12:44:04 PM

how would you feel about a handful of big ceremonies like they do at Appstate?

perhaps divided by college (where names were called) instead of one university ceremony and then departmentals?

2/1/2006 3:59:28 PM

^that's what we did 12 years ago in Management and it works really well and is very nice- especially when compared to all the separate, individual departmental ceremonies before that.

2/1/2006 4:15:24 PM

I didn't know how it was done until recently... and I've been tolling with the decision of whether or not to go to graduation if it was University wide, College wide, or Department wide.

As a Philosophy major all the other CHASS classes with History & English and some foreign language classes, architecture classes, and science classes have been done to compliment and provide context for philosophy classes. While I value those classes, it’s mostly philosophy classes that have shaped me; its philosophy professors who know me by name; it’s the philosophy department who secretaries say hi to me in the hall, not the more removed administrators of CHASS.

Department wide seems to couple graduates with the people who have impacted their academic careers the most. I wouldn't mind seeing the university wide graduation done away with, and the money and effort used instead to make departmental graduations grander events.

2/1/2006 4:20:17 PM

Does anyone know if they have professional photographers at departmental graduations where they take your picture when you receive your diploma? They do that at most universities. Do they do that here?

2/1/2006 4:22:10 PM

5 out of 9 colleges here at NCSU do college graduations instead of departmental ones.

we obviously wouldnt have 9 different college level ceremonies. but perhaps 4 or 5 ceremonies with some of the smaller colleges being grouped together would work.

2/1/2006 4:50:13 PM

^ Don't know about all colleges/departments, but at Management's they do.

2/1/2006 5:13:04 PM

how do you not know this aleady? - how did you make it to this website and not the graduation one first

2/1/2006 5:29:57 PM

Quote :

"Does anyone know if they have professional photographers at departmental graduations where they take your picture when you receive your diploma? They do that at most universities. Do they do that here?"

It depends on your individual department and largely on $$$ they have for that particular semester/year. Call and ask the department or better yet, see them in person. Best is to ask your advisor.

2/1/2006 6:48:57 PM

why would anyone go to the full graduation?

2/1/2006 6:52:08 PM

^imperfect information. It causes market breakdowns


after donahue, they decided to go with utterly mediocre and PC speakers

2/3/2006 12:41:39 AM

dude just stick with the departmental ceremony.

2/4/2006 4:04:10 AM