{"id":8536,"date":"2020-05-13T20:02:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=8536"},"modified":"2021-10-11T19:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T01:48:39","slug":"commencement-goes-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/commencement-goes-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement goes virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ilwad Salex<\/strong><br>\nReporter<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8538 alignright\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/grad-pic-for-web-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"RCTC graduation ceremony\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/grad-pic-for-web-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/grad-pic-for-web-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/grad-pic-for-web.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Around this time almost every year, all around the country there are students who are preparing for arguably one of the most memorable times of their lives: high school graduation. They plan their outfits, invite loved ones, excited and scared of what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p>This year however, things are a bit different. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools and businesses deemed as non-essential around the world have closed.<br>\nFor this reason, many schools have decided to cancel graduation ceremonies and instead have the diplomas mailed home or picked up by the students.<\/p>\n<p>Some prefer it this way, while others think sadly about the graduation ceremony they waited for for many years.<br>\nIt\u2019s not only high schools that are canceling graduation ceremonies \u2014 universities and colleges around the world have announced the cancelation of their graduation ceremonies, too.<\/p>\n<p>At Rochester Community and Technical College, this year they\u2019ll hold a virtual commencement. Students can upload pictures, inspirational quotes along with their names and the major they are graduating with, and RCTC will put that information on a card showcasing it on social media.<\/p>\n<p>While this might be not traditional, RCTC is doing everything they can to make it a memorable experience for graduates.<br>\nSafia Mustaf, a John Marshall PSEO student, will soon be graduating high school. When asked about how the graduation ceremonies being canceled affected her, she said that although it\u2019s not the way she\u2019d imagined her high school graduation, \u201cit\u2019s something that can\u2019t be helped.\u201d<br>\n\u201cGraduation is something I have always been excited for and it\u2019s a bit sad to see it never happen,\u201d she said. \u201cBut at the end of day it is for the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mustaf also said that because of graduation ceremonies being canceled, her high school was requesting student\u2019s to send in pictures similar to what RCTC is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ilwad Salex Reporter Around this time almost every year, all around the country there are students who are preparing for arguably one of the most memorable times of their lives: high school graduation. They plan their outfits, invite loved ones, excited and scared of what the future holds. This year however, things are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}