At my grad school graduation, my family was the first to get on their feet and cheer when I received my degree, and you should have seen the smile that spread across my face when they did. The school provost even commented, "You have a lot of folks out there to support you." I was like, "Yup!" They were trendsetters because quite a few people after them did it. However, it wasn't being ignant for the sake of being ignant. It was a show of support and pride in what I had accomplished. In fact, I would have been upset had they not. Grad school was a long, hard road!

One of the grad's mothers was speaking to him in their language from the balcony of the hall. She was trying to get him to fix his shirt collar or something. The entire audience cracked up at that one; she was so cute.

I am all for genuine displays of support without school regulation. However, just like with most stuff, folks get carried away or try to show out; that's when these unfortunate displays happen and mess it up for everybody.

At my hs graduation, all the kids worked at McDonald's etc. and stole the happy meal beach balls, where they blew them up and started bouncing them around.

You should have seen my Soror Mom ;) she had NEVER seen that happen in her life!!! The someone blew up a "blow up doll" and my Soror Mom almost fainted...

My college graduation as VERY different from that...

My master's I just asked for my degree in the mail...

My doctorate, my folks were like wow at the text messaging and cell phone usage...

Now that's interesting, because I find that really rude and inappropriate too, though it is less obtrusive.

i almost did the centaur walk. but i decided against it. LOL

There was an Omega at my school who was asked to apologize to the President of the school after he pulled every Omega move out when he Hopped across the stage. His hat and stole came off. He clapped under his led, spinned around, did a split and some other stuff.

I was soooo afraid that they were gonna clown him right then. He had to 'advise' the rest of the chapter to never do that.

(if you are reading this....KD member....I still got love for ya.lol_