Commencement and Convocation
Two activities I personally would have not participated in.
There is a back story to this. A couple weeks ago, one of my nephews had turned twelve and was being ordained to the Aaronic priesthood, he had invited me and given the free food element I went to participate in the ordination and the gathering afterwards. This is the start of the bad things as I refer to them.
Somewhere in the talking with my parents and the family members that gathered, my mother had mentioned receiving notice from BYU about the dates and times for the aforementioned ceremonies which I was avoiding [in part there was free food involved so you know I am a sucker for the free food]. She asked or inquired rather forcefully about my participation. I had some glib remark about not wanting to as I had graduated in December and had no need to walk due to already having the diploma in my possession. She didnt like that.
My siblings started in and tried to guilt me into doing it. I dont like relenting and tried to sway the attention away from me and onto something else.
The next day Jared, Jordan, Dad and I went to the slopes. Johnny Tatum was involved in this as well, but needless to say during the day, my father had brought up I should do it. I returned that I didnt want to.
After a few more days of bugging me, I relented as a way of making people stop harassing me about walking. I do have a low level of tolerance for people who bug me to bug me.
So back to the commencement and convocation exercises. I dont like cold things. For commencement there was a precession [one of the things my mother pointed out she wanted to see] which took forever to do as an undergraduate you are in the back of the line and the pace is really slow getting going with the Faculty and Graduates et. al. setting the pace. The weather was cold, there were chances for snow, and we hit the lottery as I made my way into the Marriot center the location for commencement it started to snow hard. I was cold and not a happy person. The highlight of the day, reading what people had gotten degrees for. I didnt know that it was possible of doing something with player-avatar relationships in Super Mario Brothers but at least I was sitting near someone I could have fun doing that with.
Got done with commencement and went to my strategically parked car for my fast escape south to my place where I waited for my mother and father to arrive and then went out to eat.
The next day caused me to be up early and walk in the cold to the Wilkinson Center for convocation exercise. After some obligatory pictures and waiting around we finally did the processional into the ballroom. Having sat thru it and experienced what my parents wanted me to, I could have foregone the events in lieu of doing them in two years. Convocation was marred in my opinion by two students who didn't have public speaking experience.
The best part of the two days was the food...maybe followed up by spending time running around with my parents...but I hate the sitting around doing nothing moments...something i could have done without...
but that is my two cents worth
~u