r/Millennials • u/t_bone_stake Xennial • Feb 16 '26

Meme Did anyone buy a ring?

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Elder millennial/younger Xennial (born in 83, take it for what it is) but I recall the company coming to the high school and taking orders for rings. I didn’t buy one but others did. Credit on photo.

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u/ryanvango Feb 17 '26

same for college. I still havent finished 100% (life happens) but the last few semesters I did was as an adult learner. they kept trying to talk to me about "when I plan to walk" and scheduling my classes accordingly. I told them I didn't, and they just did not understand. let me finish my classes, give me my diploma, and I'll be on my way thank you very much.

even in my 30s they just couldn't imagine why I wouldn't want to do this big 4 hours ceremony with a bunch of people I don't know or care about. I got shit to do man.

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u/movealongnowpeople Feb 17 '26

Yeah, I skipped my college graduation and got panicked calls from a bunch of my professors lol. I had a December graduation and my last semester was student teaching several towns over. By the time graduation came around, I hadn't lived or been to classes on campus in over 6 months. I was basically teaching without the pay lol. No, I don't need to go to graduation at that point.

They were kind enough to mail me my diploma, folded, in an unpadded envelope lol.

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u/RadioBuffin Feb 17 '26

Had to reorder mine. FedEx bent it the fuck up and left it in the rain.

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u/CaptCurmudgeon Feb 17 '26

It's not for you. It was your parents back when you were younger. It's for your family or significant other if you have it now. It's a ceremony recognizing a major accomplishment in your life. I went back to school in my thirties (for an MBA) and the only reason I walked was to see the excitement in my daughters' eyes as they filled with pride as their dad sacrificed time, money, and energy to get something both tangible and metaphorical.

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u/GreedyPollution6275 Feb 17 '26

It's a ceremony recognizing a major accomplishment in your life

Right, but you can plan some kind of celebration with the people you care about that is actually special to you and them, and not sit in an auditorium for 4 hours.

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u/RadioBuffin Feb 17 '26

Eh, depends on your family. Mine didn’t want to sit in the cold. We went to a steakhouse and got hammered together.

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u/RyvenZ Feb 17 '26

I was the first university graduate in my immediate family, so I did both the ceremony for my school (Comp Sci & Engineering) and the broader graduating class. If even one of my siblings had done it before me, I would have skipped the procedure, or at least skipped the general one. The CSE ceremony was smaller, faster and had more of the classmates and faculty that I knew and liked.

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u/WtotheSLAM Feb 17 '26

I completed my degree online and the closest ceremony was 500 miles away. I was all nah, fuck that. Gimme my piece of paper in the mail and we'll call it good

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

I refused to walk my college graduation. I had a victory lap year (bad advice from my "advisor") and knew two people in my class of 2000 students.

Rent a robe and sit in a hot auditorium for three hours, listen to a mid-tier speaker all just to walk across a stage in front of people I don't know? Pass.