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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

There are students today who want to attend the graduation ceremony to be able to see their friends receive their diplomas. Fortunately, there is no problem with that yet (supposedly) because unlike in other campuses, there is no issue yet with each graduate only having a limited number of tickets for the venue so that their whole clan can attend. And what's with that anyway?

I understand the parents wanting to drag along all of the graduate's siblings if it's the first or the last of their brood to finish a college degree, or if there were especially trying circumstances behind the situation that makes the actually graduation seem like nothing short of a miracle. But why not just reserve that right for the parents themselves and invite everyone else who may not be as enamored with the moment to the celebratory meal afterwards?

Besides, if we're talking about children who haven't graduated yet, it puts pressure on them.

And if it's children who have graduated already, there may be subconscious comparisons about how much less enthusiastic (at least in the eyes of the child) the parents were during his or her own graduation earlier.

If any of the siblings are already married, why drag them into the occasion as well?

And why is there a need to pull strings saying "I know someone from the administration who can give us more tickets" just to have an advantage over the other graduates?

Aren't there actually more important times when those connections could be used?

There are all just rhetorical questions, by the way, and are in no way meant to be a criticism of a parent's enthusiasm over a child's accomplishment.

It's also a sign that I'm apparently running out of ideas to write here, as there are only so much I could squeeze out of the events of the previous term.

Well, there are still other topics, such as how pure ambition could make someone lash out at people with whom they are conversing just because they didn't get what they want. Yes, this is related to one of the previous topics written here recently, of which the whole sordid saga has not been told.

I guess that should be good for two more entries here starting Monday, then I talk about something else.

Session 2135 is like Bilbo when shown The Ring again and wants it so badly. Class dismissed.