...that boat has flown

The Jubilee celebrations and their accompanying hysteria all demonstrate Britain’s exclusive and narrow minded approach as to what really is British. There is a great section of British society that is not reflected in what seems to be a collective effort by some to return to the good old days and retro Britannia. Such an attitude doesn’t help address the needs of modern Britain today, a society rife with tension on all levels, whether that be class or race.

Let us not pretend for a second that what made Britain great was strong exports of crab apple punch and Devonshire clotted cream. This “great” society was built on the backs of colonised communities all over the globe, of whose diaspora continually contributes to the British economy and workforce. The Jubilee celebrations do not reflect this fact. Neither do they reflect the toil and sweat of British people of all races struggling in a class system where social mobility is further grinding to a halt.

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Yeah. I mean—I can live with the embarrassment thing (I’ve had more embarrassing stuff happen to me in public), but it’s the diploma thing that worries me. And there is probably something, but I need to look at my student handbook…thingie. I’m not sure what to call it. Either way, there will be words had!

Aw, I’m glad you’re pragmatic about it. It’s still really fucking bad management, though, and it’s not like they have any way of knowing which students this is going to be a super big once-in-a-lifetime event for, either. Frumph. (Unless graduation is less of a big deal in the US? In the UK we don’t have any kind of graduation thing leaving high school/secondary school, and pretty much everyone goes to graduation at the end of uni and most people’s parents insist on coming to see where their offspring have been living for the last 3/4 years and dressing up nice and all that.)

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Just ranting about being publically embarrassed last night. Shhhhh.

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fuck those guys, that’s fucking awful :(

I hope they apologised to you, they suck for that, especially given they asked for an rsvp. my graduation was ridiculous and…

Nope—no apology. Well, from the professor announcing for me, yes, but no one got one from Administration (go figure). 

Thankfully, though, the ceremony was inside—I didn’t have to worry about dressing  in robes more fit for winter in Siberia than summer. It was about the only consolation. I’m going to try and talk to someone about all this on Monday, though. I want to know if I’m getting my expensive piece of paper or not!

They definitely owe you a piece of paper! Unless they set a date to RSVP by and you missed it, I think it’d be a totally reasonable strategy to print off a copy of whatever you sent as an RSVP and go plant yourself in the Admin building and wave it in peoples’ faces until they offer apologies and promises to sort that shit out.

You enrolled and spent howeverlong studying there and entrusted them with your education, they owe it to you to send you off proud of your accomplishments with something that recognises them. I think for us there was stuff about graduation in the official statutes, too; it might be worth looking around so you can go in there saying “these are the obligations your establishment has to its students, you’ve failed them like this”. But even if there isn’t paperwork to wave in peoples’ faces, ending your ungrad degree by getting to graduate is a pretty basic assumption everyone has about their course; I don’t think outrage or upset is out of place at the fact they cocked it up. Getting in touch and making it their job to sort it out in time to prove you’re Officially Educated is totally reasonable, I’d say be as firm as possible with them and make it totally clear it’s their responsibility to stress over that and not yours & tell them if there’s a deadline you need them to meet.