| | So I wrote this:
Hello,
My name is Danielle Cummings and I am graduating and participating in
the commencement next week. I also have a 6-week old baby and wondered
what was going on from 8:30-10 that morning - if we are occupied that
whole time or if it would be feasible to see any of our guests (or
feed my kid...). Kind of an odd question but since the ceremony is so
long, I'm trying to figure out how to make it work for my family.
Thanks for your help!
I got this response:
Danielle,
It is not feasible to see your guests, or feed your wee one. Have breakfast with your guests. Fox's is good, up on North Lake Ave. At 8:30, you'll file into the student Lineup and your guests will go into the main sanctuary, and I hope your little one has a fabulous time in the nursery. Once you are in Student Lineup, the time is given to instructions, seating placement, putting on robes, lineup, moving into the sanctuary, and the like. There is simply too much going on to try and add YOU visiting or being responsible for a feeding.
If you want to try a feeding during the ceremony, and your child is in the sanctuary rather than the nursery, and if your alphabetical placement puts you at the edge of a row, and your guests find where that is, and they can claim the seats nearest to you, and they don't mind having a fussy baby sit with them for four hours, and you can figure out how to tackle the feeding in black robes with people moving all around you, I'd still say 'no', at least until you've gone across the stage. After *that* happens, it doesn't matter what order you sit because you don't need to meet your name on the list the Dean will be reading.
Does that help any?
(end of e-mail)
Now, when I first read it, I thought it was a little over the top weird... but then I read it again and I started thinking that this was rude... what do you think??
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