<p>^We are hoping for some good weather. It’s been raining all along the region for the past two weeks.</p>
<p>Looks like it <em>might</em> clear up Sunday, but the stands & field will probably be sopped.
Will prepare accordingly. Would not want to have to do the indoor alternative. On the other hand trudging though mud and sitting in puddles also does not appeal.</p>
<p>On the bright side, she’ll certainly remember her graduation.</p>
<p>While I was fretting out loud about the weather forecast, dh reminded me that 4 years ago, for s’s graduation, it rained in morning but cleared up and we were outside - it was humid but fine.</p>
<p>The weather is looking better each day!!! Please, please, no indoor graduation.</p>
<p>Oh my, congrats to all the parents and graduates this year! D has a couple of years to go and I know it will be difficult to say goodbye. Many of you have offered such great advice over the years and I always appreciated your posts. Have fun this weekend!
(My family will be heading up to McGill for my S’s graduation next week! REALLY hate to say goodbye to Montreal!)</p>
<p>…aand they’re off.
Next stop, Ithaca !</p>
<p>Have fun monydad!</p>
<p>We couldn’t have asked for a better weather. We hosted a barbecue by the lake, we couldn’t have had a better weather. The math department was so small, they asked each graduate to say few words. It was very intimate, felt like most professors knew D1. We will be back again in 4 years when nephew graduates. </p>
<p>Hope everyone had a great time.</p>
<p>^ I agree, thought it would be rained out, but it ended up getting real hot -_-
Hope everyone had a good time :)</p>
<p>Just got back.</p>
<p>Sort of an ironic turn, as I said we were going for her, when we were there D2 said she was only going for us!</p>
<p>But she had it right I think. As someone posted previously, it’s a nice thing to do for the parents, as the opportunities for family stuff get fewer. This is something the parents may take more note of than the kid does.</p>
<p>We skipped Rudy for the farmer’s market, but otherwise went with the program and had a very nice weekend. The weather really held up magnificently, given the prior forecasts.
They had a very nice ceremony when they awarded the degrees for her major, it was very personal. It is a small program.</p>
<p>Buttermilk Falls was really roaring when we stopped to walk off dinner, so I decided to take a slight detour to Taughannock Falls on the way home. It was in more impressive form than I remember ever seeing it. I guess they’ve had a lot of rain there.</p>
<p>Had my obligatory sui, and my wife took back a WGC (thank you, applejack I believe).</p>
<p>Thanks to D2 for giving me more opportunities to revisit the old stomping grounds.</p>
<p>And that’s a wrap.</p>
<p>sorry, not applejack, it was dewdrop87.</p>
<p>what’s the most critical part of the weekend? for next year, if I had some family members who could only join me for one day, when should that be? the people in question have been to Ithaca and Cornell before, so we would not need to set aside time for sightseeing.
I know the schedule varies a lot by student, based on their studies and activities, so there’s probably no one correct answer.</p>
<p>The most critical part of the weekend is the commencement ceremony, and the diploma award ceremonies that take place immediately afterwards.</p>
<p>If the people in question have been to Ithaca and Cornell before, then IMO you need to set aside more time for sightseeing, not less. Unless they live in the area. Because they presumably know how nice it is up there, and are not going to want to go all the way there without seeing the sights once again. Walking through a beautiful state park, seeing the waterfalls, is not something one cares to experience only once in one’s life, or something one gets to do every day. YMMV.</p>
<p>good point about not ruling out the sightseeing. building in some time at a park would probably be smart, actually.
I didn’t exactly get that the diploma award ceremonies were on the same day as commencement (too much experience with cousins at other schools where that’s not the case, I guess.) well that’s good to know, and it makes the scheduling a lot easier.</p>
<p>I should also add my congratulations to all the 2011 grads, and to their families! I’m glad you had decent weather, and it sounds like everyone posting here had a nice time.</p>
<p>The whole weekend was just wonderful! We enjoyed the convocation ceremony with former mayor Guilani very much. We thought he did a wonderful job in addressing the students about leadership, and what it takes to really make a difference. </p>
<p>Both Sat and Sun mornings it looked like rain and we all felt very fortunate when the sun came out shining for all the grads (wished it was a little overcast because it was hot). The graduation was everything I thought it would be and the smaller ceremonies were also wonderful! </p>
<p>I loved when all the students joined their arms and sang the school song…I definitely got a little teary eyed. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL CORNELL GRADS AND PARENTS!!!</p>
<p>We DID go to Graduation - and loved it (again) but enroute we stopped at a gas station in Columbus and dh came back laughing. The cashier had looked at his Cornell polo and said,
"Oh! I guess that is a real school. I always thought it was just made up on “The Office”.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity – how do people with double majors get their diplomas?</p>
<p>Marian I don’t know how Cornell does it but my S graduated with a double major form Mcgill last week. One major graduated in a morning ceremony (with William Shatner receiving an honorary Phd), the other in the afternoon. He had to go to the one that was first on his transcript - in the PM. Lovely ceremony but we missed Captain Kirk!</p>
<p>D1 was asked which ceremony she wanted to attend prior to the graduation. The math department strongly urged her to attend their graduation because they had less than 20 students, and that´s where she received her diploma. She did stop off at Econ´s reception to thank her professors.</p>