OT - Question about UM Spring Commencement Tickets
My son graduates from UM in April. The commencement web site says each graduating student gets 8 tickets. The site also says that additional tickets may be avaialble the day before graduation, with a limit of two per person. We may have as many as 15 family members in town for graduation, and I am hoping for a liitle advice on getting extra tickets before people make the commitment to travel. Does anyone have any recent experience with this that you can share? Are there typically a lot of tickets available the day before? Is there a seconday market for extra graduation tickets so we don't have to take the chance on not being able to get them?
January 29th, 2017 at 8:54 PM ^
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January 29th, 2017 at 9:23 PM ^
January 29th, 2017 at 9:30 PM ^
Then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo I believe would be the last one.
January 29th, 2017 at 9:40 PM ^
January 29th, 2017 at 9:23 PM ^
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/jk - Congrats to your son and to your family!
January 29th, 2017 at 9:58 PM ^
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January 30th, 2017 at 12:08 AM ^
Graduation isn't cool at all honestly. You don't walk across any stage, you just stand up and they mail that diploma to you later.
If you're looking for a "oooh there's my kid shaking President Schlissel's hand!" type of moment, it won't happen.
Still a big accomplishment, and I had a bunch of my own family come in for it as well, but it was kind of a let down.
Sorry for being a bearer of bad news.
January 30th, 2017 at 2:02 AM ^
Winter graduation does allow for walking on stage, shaking the college president's hand and they announce your name. That's why i thought it was silly when people suggest i put off graduation 4 months to have it at the stadium. Not to mention i would've had to delay my career. Yeah, there's usually a better speaker with no ties at all to the U at the spring ceremony, but it's not about them. It's not their accomplishment
January 30th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
Yes, I skipped my own graduation in the stadium and just went to my department ceremony and reception for exactly that reason. But since then, I have attended a lot of other similar graduations at large universities and have learned to appreciate the atmosphere of a very large group of people celebrating a very happy occasion. Attending graduations of the children of siblings has become a tradition in our extended family. But to be completely honest, the biggest event for all of us that weekend is my son's commissioning ceremony.
January 30th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
The commissioning ceremony will be much better than the graduation. Congratulations to your son. What branch?
I know my commissioning was much more memorable than my graduation.
January 30th, 2017 at 9:40 AM ^
Thanks for alll the suggestions!
January 30th, 2017 at 10:49 AM ^
The commencement website suggests that tickets are all reserved seating. Does anyone know how strictly this is enforced? I am a local in a program with A LOT of internationals who I can probably get extra tickets from, but it's only worth it if my family can actually sit together. I only NEED 4 (grad students only get 4), but would be much happier with something like 6-8.
January 30th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
Tell your son to look on facebook to see if people are GIVING AWAY extras (not the gunners who try to sell their extras). I had the Zingerman bros as my speakers...kind of lame. The group graduation is pretty cool to be in the stadium and to briefly walk on the field. (the stadium looks smaller from down below).
Individual college's/majors have their own graduations and you get to shake hands etc.. with the College Dean etc..
Funny thing about the group graduation is: NO ONE CHECKS to see if you're graduating/elligible to walk. (Or checks your ticket). You just line up like a herd of cows and move in. My experience was I waited in line for 90 mins to 2 hours to get my graduation tickets from the alumni center (and my own ticket for the stadium cermony which nobody checked). It seemed more of a process to get you signed up for the alumni assn more than anything.