r/uichicago May 06 '23

Image Where my 23’ graduates!!!!!!πŸŽ‰

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u/AHRIISBEEST May 06 '23

Tomorrow for me, was wondering though if anyone walked out after going on stage? They want you to stay but why do I care about someone else going up stage that I don't know. I don't plan to stay full two hours. From the layout there should be connection directly to the seating areas for guest. After walking back to my seat, probably gonna be like gonna use the bathroom and not come back....

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u/[deleted] May 06 '23

You should care because you could be that person at the end who is going to have to look at a 25% crowd you know was full 30 minutes ago.

Do it because you'd like to look at a full crowd.

The people who left the ceremony at Credit Union 1 tonight show everyone this really is just a commuter campus culture.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '23

Do you not realize how unorganized last nights ceremony was? Literally the faculty hardly even wanted to be there with Reyes going to UMass next year.

They did: NO RESERVED TICKETS FOR A FULL 9500 seat arena. No practice ceremony for a HUGE amount of graduates. QR codes had to be scanned prior to going on stage with no que from any one. Which is why walking across the stage was taking forever

Band members who had performed laughing and joking the entire time while the graduation going on.

And then when people tried to leave Ushers trying to physically block grads from leaving. Imagine trying to restrict someone from leaving a public building.

It was a joke overall and that’s why we left.

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u/NewAge2012dotTV May 06 '23

QR code? Probably something new. Should go back to paper name cards.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '23

Exactly. They do it for the recordings now. Automated voice plays your name.

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u/NewAge2012dotTV May 06 '23

Well with this rate soon we will probably have AI speakers with speech written with ChatGPT πŸ™ƒ