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Graduation As Told By Disney

Too many emotions.

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It's a day you've simultaneously been dreading and looking forward to for the past four years: graduation. You're excited to be done with the exams and papers, but sad to leave your friends and terrified of going out into the real world. You go through an entire spectrum of emotions in just a few hours. But, Disney characters can perfectly sum up the typical college senior's graduation day:

Your alarm goes off, and you don't budge...

because last night probably looked a little something like this for you:

You were either the person staring on in horror or one of the people excited to finally participate in whatever weird pre-graduation tradition your college has (usually involving some form of nudity).

Luckily, your underclassmen friend is there to force you to get up.

Once you're all dressed, you really, really hard to make your hair look decent in the cap.


Since it only takes you about two minutes to find your spot in line, you stand there waiting for so long that your feet start to hurt.

Finally, the music starts and the lines begin to move. As you approach the crowd, your family and friends and friends try to get your attention.

As you settle into your seat and people start giving speeches, the initial excitement starts to wear off and exhaustion seeps back in. You struggle to keep your eyes open.

The speeches all involve very similar reworded clichés.

Then it happens: everyone in your row stands up, and you make your way up to the stage, the whole time praying you don't trip.

Luckily, you don't trip AND you remember which hand to shake with. Diploma in hand, you strut off the stage.

As you walk back to your seat, you suddenly become giddy. All of the intense study seshs and all-nighters have brought you to this moment. And somehow, you managed to finish everything on time.

But once you sit back in your seat, that giddiness evaporates as thoughts of the future creep up on you. You start to wonder: How am I going to survive outside the college bubble? What's the real world going to be like?

It's a scary place and you're not sure you're ready for it yet. Can you cook anything besides pasta and scrambled eggs? No. Do you know how to do taxes? Not at all.

You start daydreaming about dropping everything and traveling the world so you can avoid "adulting" for a little while longer.

But then you realize you have no money and still have to pay for school, so instead you start mentally preparing for job interviews.

Finally, the ceremony ends and you're momentarily distracted from your panicked thoughts about the future as you try to find your family in the crowd.

Once you find them, they immediately start taking hundreds of pictures of you.

The entire time, you're thinking one of two things: 1. I wonder which of these pictures I should post on Instagram? or 2. Alright, when is this going to be over so we can eat?

You find your friends and start to get all emotional about leaving each other.


And for the rest of the day, you can't stop thinking:

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