It was twenty years ago today...

[OrigamiTulip]

My graduation was 8 years ago, and it was an experience I NEVER want to repeat.

When our yearbooks came out the week before graduation, I found out my name had be omitted from the list of National Merit students. At my school we had 29ish of them and I was the only one left off. My mother got upset, and called the school to complain. To rectify the error the school decided to have me stand up, alone, in the middle of my ceremony, and announce that I had been left off the National Merit Students page in the yearbook. I was MORTIFIED. I had no idea they were going to do that.

Then a little later in the ceremony, as we were leaving our seats to form the line to cross the stage, the zippper on my gown broke. I was frantically trying to get it closed before I had to actually walk onto the stage. At the last moment, I yanked a bobby pin from my cap, put it through the broken zipper and managed to pull it up.

After that experience, I decided not to walk in my college graduation, but got talked into it just before the deadline to order caps and gowns. I'm glad I went to that one. It was much smoother and not at all embarrassing.