When their formal commencement was canceled, these new college graduates celebrated in their own way.
The sun had already lit up my room by the time I woke up on Saturday morning, and I could tell it was going to be a bright, warm day—a rarity for early May in Michigan.
Still, waking up to sunshine on May 2, a day I should have been gathering with all the friends I’d made over the past four years, hurt a bit. But my roommates and I were determined not to waste the nice day, so we planned some substitute activities: a virtual, socially distanced graduation appropriate for our strange and unprecedented times.
As we screamed the lyrics to the songs that had gotten us through the last four years, the hours began to fly by. Cars honked at us and passersby shouted words of congratulations. We ate the fancy cheeses one of my roommates had bought on an essential-goods run to Costco, and cut into the ornate football-themed cake another roommate’s sister had made for us.
Although Al Gore couldn’t join us, all of my roommates and myself—the ones still in Ann Arbor and the ones who’d gone home—logged on to the call to see all of our parents’ faces in their own little squares. My friend Lillie’s brother read our names off a PowerPoint document, and each of our parents went around and made a toast.
Amanda and I, still together on our couch in Ann Arbor, turned to each other. We both had tears rolling down our cheeks, and we laughed as we wiped them away. We had certainly gotten what we wanted out of this experience.As I scrolled through Instagram and Facebook later, I saw pictures of friends next to homemade yard signs and videos of parents reading names off scrolls as their kids walked across their yard.
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