Reply #167: kinda tough

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I was an atheist at graduation, but I still spent a few hours going to my baccalaureate. Also cannot remember if there was a prayer at the graduation ceremonies. The program says "invocation" but I am not sure what that entailed. I think a prayer would have been easier to sit through than the four speakers that we had. In fact I think that by the fourth speaker that I started praying for it to end.

That was probably shorter though, than college graduation at Minnesota, which had over 800 names read. The last person got a standing ovation. If it was up to me, I woulda skipped the whole damn ceremony, but my parents wanted me to go, and I figured I owed them at least that much, since they paid for it.

There are many times in life when one is faced with rigamarole that we'd just as soon avoid. It is wiser to just jump through a few hoops instead of making a federal case out of it.