― Friedrich Nietzsche.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.. .
G is for the Grades that got you here.
R is for the Recommendations from teaches back there.
A is for the Attitude you had in class.
D is for the Determination; your goal was to pass.
U is for the Understanding you had.
A is for your Achievements; you were happy, not sad.
T is for your Teachers who helped lead the way,
I is for your Initiative, for that ceremony in May.
O is for almost an Olympic Gold.
N is for the Nice degree you now hold.
Steve Jobs on Commencement and Graduation ...
Ceremonies for graduating students date from the first universities in Europe in the twelfth century. At that time Latin was the language of scholarship. A "universitas" was a guild of masters (MAs) with licence to teach. "Degree" and "graduate" come from gradus, meaning "step". The first step was admission to a bachelor's degree. The second step was the masters step, giving the graduate admission to the universitas and license to teach.
Typical dress for graduation is gown and hood, or hats adapted from the daily dress of university staff in the Middle Ages, which was in turn based on the attire worn by medieval clergy ;-)
"Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.”
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