User blog comment:I Am MonkeyBoy/Crazy Day/@comment-36277500-20190519190023

I kind of understand.

My graduation of high school was formal, but not so stressful nor pompous. We had just tailored suits, and girls were allowed to have woman's suits with skirts or trousers depending on their will. There was no rehearsal. The most stressful thing was matural exam.

I had "cap and gown" experience only once, after graduating medical school. At 2010, it was still new custom for us, that was introduced to honor American stipendists' tradition. Before that new (for us) tradition, graduates just had to wear tailored suits, and the ceremony was simple and modest. Some people including me wanted to continue old tradition, but we were in the minority. Eventually, we had pompous and pretentious ceremony instead. We had to pay the costs of renting gowns and buying caps that we would NEVER ever use again :P - what a waste... Luckily, we had no rehearsals, we were too busy and stressed with our exams.

I hope such "cap and gown" custom will be cancelled someday, as it happened with wigs in lawyers at the courts, and with special caps in nurses. It's obsolete and pompous, and we have XXI century here.

I congratulate you on graduation and feel sorry for your unnecessary stress.

PS. Some counsellors are idiots though.