Never underestimate the importance of good speeches at a graduation. The dean at my brothers school quoted Dr. Seuss and the Navy dude rambled on about life-long learning. I suppose it's asking for the moon to expect tech students to have grammatical and speaking skills, but at least use proper grammer when you are thanking a teacher for correcting your grammer. Fortunately for my sanity, there were only 12 people graduating, so it went pretty quick. Then I just had to deal with the brother's geek-aspiring friends ogling me. And really, that had to be the saddest indicator of the whole event.