One Week Until I Officially Graduate From College...Anxiety Levels Initiating?

One week from today, the ceremony will be over. Unlike my "a week from today self", I still have to take the journey to get there and in scoring one final college-related victory over Social Anxiety Disorder.

Despite what I said, I guess I am looking forward to it (guess it was the anxiety talking). I mean, this is one of those big experiences you don't get often after all.

And at the end when I say I'm going to end now, believe it or not, just as I said that while reaching for my camera, my memory card filled up and the camera stopped recording the very second I said it.

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[NeroMaddox]

I'm hoping it'll be the same for mine with not being relatively all that many graduates. I hope it'll be relatively short. I think for me, once we get in there and sit down, most of my anxiety will be gone by that point. Definitely all gone when I return to my seat from walking across the stage. But yeah, hopefully I will have someone to talk to.

[NeroMaddox]

I doubt that there will be thousands graduating in my class. I'd guess it'll only be in the hundreds somewhere. At least I hope anyway since I'd rather not sit there for a horribly long time. I hope, if it does end up with me not having anyone to talk to, it won't bother me too much either.

[NeroMaddox]

I'll do that. I'll just need to make sure that they know how to do the camera properly.

[ConsciousCloud]

Yeah, my December graduation last year was very short and there weren't that many graduates. That's usually the case for most December grads so I was glad. After the walk across the stage, the anxiety levels totally subsided for me. But as far as the whole standing around part, man I felt so awkward going through that. Hopefully you'll have someone to talk to at least, I had no one. And if it's the same for you then maybe you could play on your phone or text someone so it appears like your busy.

[Psychology]

Believe it or not, I hated my graduation. I went to a giant school, so there were thousands in my graduating class. I had to sit through a plethora speeches, guest speakers, and every name of every graduate being called out. The ceremony lasted about 5 hours.

As far as not having anyone to talk to, I'm a loner anyway so it didn't bother me. However, I'm always going against the grain so don't base it off of my experience. You may enjoy it and I hope you do. Have fun, man.

[StealthyBob]

Have your parents film you recieving your diploma so you can upload it on here.