week Last, the Columbia campus was taken from a wind of madness: the graduation ceremony. Well, I have still not grasped the American educational system, but prior to graduation (Graduation) 5 is a bin with a BA +3, wholesale ... The level difference with Europe is fairly clear, but the Americans catch up quickly behind them when they make theses, thanks to a hard job. And like in private. Brief. we know, everybody knows, graduation is a major event for the student, but also for the whole family. The photo on the Graduation throne prominently in the family home, next to that of marriage. I was pretty anxious to see it up close, and you can dial one of my famous sociological analysis. Bah
And now I am no further ahead, I understood nothing. I'm not sure what to make of all this, and why can not a point that graduation is so important.
In practice, all week was marked by "small events", while "large" was Wednesday. Each course (Science, Journalism, Education, Literature, etc..) Has a small ceremony. I went quickly with Aude was that of the Fu Foundation (which includes physics and engineering). Frankly not dreadful. Tents were installed in the middle of campus. While parents and friends settled, the newly graduates waiting (badly) caches. People who clicked on the link above have found that the color of Columbia, is light blue. What is nice, but not the class. Students quickly pass parents before the tent and settled in a tent hand. And begins an endless series of speeches, more or less well done. It goes to the director of Columbia responsible for a assoc 'student who proudly announces that it has raised more money than in previous years (that a criterion for success as another) ... All transcribed on large screens so that we can comfortably bored.
ceremony Wednesday was much more impressive. I think roughly 5,000 people gathered at the campus. One does not enter without a ticket or invitation. Inside a mess, but it is true that impressive. And then the ceremony begins, and it is still an uninterrupted series of speeches and pompous music. On this photo , the director explains briefly what the girl must have her right a doctorate Honoris Causa . In short, thousands of on, dressed for the occasion, are quickly ch ...
So difficult to explain such a craze (because there is really infatuation, families are thousands of miles to see it). Not for the ceremonies, perfectly boring. It is not for the value of the degree, fully symbolic (everyone has it, then count the notes only). It can not be just out of habit, tradition. Maybe because the whole family is really bleeding the four veins in order to reject a good offer as Columbia University. And without a little pomp, the disappointment of education, not really so good that it would be too palpable.
This last sentence is only my opinion. I leave you with a ptite video and the link for photos.
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