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, with no rehearsal needed. We just had to wear tailored suits and elegant shoes, and girls were allowed to have women's suits with skirts or trousers depending on their will. The most stressful thing was matural exam.

I had "cap & gown" experience only once, after graduating medical school. At 2010, it was still a new custom for us, that was introduced to honor American stipendists' tradition. Before that came, 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 & gown" custom will be cancelled someday, as it happened with nurses' caps and lawyers' wigs. 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.