#diploma honor

[ikiprian]

Mr. Fenton is a competent teacher. Almost too competent.

If Mr. Daniel Fenton had any more than a BS (with a minor in education), Tim would’ve flagged his profile as a potential Rogue. That’s the way of most charismatic academics, at least in Gotham. (Got a PhD? Instant watchlist.) Instead, he’s Gotham Academy’s newest celebrity, as a young, passionate, out-of-towner substitute while the chemistry teacher’s on maternity leave.

Tim gets the hype. Fenton seems to genuinely love teaching, and is invested in the welfare of the student body. He hands out bananas during exam week, hosts a “study habits seminar” each month to coach effective learning strategies, and the third time Tim falls asleep in his class, he even pulls Tim aside to ask if he’s doing okay. With all the late work he accepts and the protein bars he sneaks Tim, he’s every teen vigilante’s dream teacher. He could’ve been Tim’s favorite.

In fact, Mr. Fenton was Tim’s favorite. Up until Tim walks into Mr. Fenton’s chemistry classroom for a forgotten textbook, an hour after the final bell.

On the board where tallied scores for today’s review game had been kept, “THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND DR. CRANE’S FEAR GAS: ANXIOGENICS, NERI’S, & YOU,” is now scrawled. A detailed diagram of the human endocrine system projects in front of a small crowd of adoring and attentive students.

Fenton is wrist-deep in the skull cavity of an anatomical model. A short tug, and out pops the brain.

It’s plastic. It’s fake.

Tim identifies the nearest emergency exit.

Fenton turns to the door, and in the dark classroom with the projector illuminating half his face, his eyes almost seem to flash red. “What’s up, Tim?” he asks. His friendly grin is too big for his face. “I didn’t know you wanted to join the Just Science League!”

[OR: Danny’s a science teacher at Tim’s school. Gotham’s a pretty wild place, even for someone who grew up a superhero in a ghost-infested town, so he takes it upon himself to start a club teaching kids how to manage themselves in the event of a crisis. These Gothamites are pretty hardy, but a little extra training never hurt anybody! And he suspects one of his students might be a teen vigilante, like he’d been, back in the day. As a senior super, it's Danny’s duty look out for him! Surely, this is the subtlest and most appropriate way to give the kid pointers.]

[Tim immediately assumes supervillain.]

[joasnebe]

I received for my participation at the mix reality exhibition “Interferences” @ M.A.D.S. Gallery a Diploma Honorificus. A big thank you to the curators and the whole gallery team!

[musicalmoritz]

I can’t take Teru haters seriously anymore, wdym your biggest opp is a dude who hasn’t even completed his GPA yet

[cicadasketch]

Here’s a bunch of silly messy little sketches for the mungrove peeps

[celestial-spectre-shuigui]

Sleep, hah. What an odd construct. It is not soemthijgn one who is not organxic such as I have to worry abour

Whar

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[nubezumie]

NEoNA for NEoNA_ART | ArtFight Revenge Attack Does this pony have enough diploma with honors in her eyes? :'D

https://artfight.net/attack/7523654.neona-for-neona-art

NEoNA, congratulations on graduating from "Hogwarts"! 🎓✨

Thank you so much for all the time we spent together studying. You are a very responsible person and a wonderful friend. I have always been impressed by your approach to work, the consistency and persistence with which you do everything, and your willingness to help selflessly. I could never do that.

I hoped we would graduate together, but unfortunately, I was expelled before graduation. Who could have thought... Now I don't know if I will come back to this college at all :'D

It makes me so happy that our paths crossed in this college, even before we were enrolled there. It’s practically the only good thing this place has given me. I was glad to walk most of this journey with you. 🤝

Congratulations again on your graduation and on earning your well-deserved red honors diploma through hard work and dedication! You are awesome ✨🎉🏅

[mango-shpango]

IM SUCH A SCHOLAR !!!!

[un-pearable]

genuinely so so mad this astronomy class is letting me down this dude is genuinely a shit teacher and has chronic “too little reading too many assignments” brain. but i can’t drop or i won’t get my honor cert at grad. hell of my own making

[ryuuseini]

Thinking about Them (my emotionally unavailable failboy and the obsessive teen who stalks (?) him)

[addierose444]

Commencement 2023

In this post, I’m excited to share some of my photos from commencement! After a bit of a rainy day prior (Saturday), we were fortunate enough to have beautiful weather for commencement itself (Sunday). As shared in my last post, during the Ivy Day ceremony I’d been awarded two engineering awards and had been called up to pick up a special gold tassel and cord for graduating summa cum laude (the highest tier of Latin honors). Given these honors, it had somehow gotten in my head that Ivy Day would be bigger for me than commencement itself as I personally took more pride in these individual honors. Please know that I in no way mean to undermine the accomplishment that is graduating from college, particularly for those who are the first in their families to do so! I’ll be the first to admit that I perhaps took graduating from college a bit for granted as I’ve excelled academically for as long as I can remember, technically had the requisite credits to graduate a year ago, and have two college-educated parents (one who holds a graduate degree from an Ivy League school). This is not to say that college was easy for me as I’ve had to work extremely hard over the last four years. With all of that being said, other than being a bit long commencement was an amazing experience. 

Commencement morning began with us lining up (grouped by house and within our house ordered alphabetically by last name). After a long while of waiting, we finally processed into the quad itself. Our commencement speaker was Reshma Saujani who is the founder of Girls Who Code. As a computer science major and future software engineer, I was sort of hoping she’d touch on technology in her speech. In retrospect, it makes sense that she didn’t as Smith is a liberal arts school and her formal education isn’t in STEM. With all that said did find her speech to be both interesting and inspiring. It was also fitting that she talked about bicycles as my big graduation gift is a new bike! Not sure if this link will work in the future, but here’s the full commencement webcast.

As for the official conferring of degrees, it was actually so much fun in large part because I was graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science and Computer Science. (Note that sadly, majors aren’t listed on Smith diplomas unless a student writes an honors thesis that earns them departmental honors). This degree meant two things for commencement. First, as engineering is Smith’s only Bachelor of Science, we were technically conferred our degrees separately from and before our peers (who were earning Bachelor of Arts degrees). Not that the order itself matters (graduate students were before us anyways), but having this moment with my fellow engineerings was absolutely incredible. Second, instead of flipping our tassels from the right side of our caps to the left side we removed our caps entirely and replaced them with our hard hats! If interested, you can check out this post about the celebration of engineering seniors during which we received our hard hats. 

Leading up to commencement itself I was a bit conflicted about which of the hats to wear across the stage. On one hand, the mortar board represented graduating college and naturally highlighted my accomplishment of graduating summa cum laude. On the other hand, the hardhat was unique and represented all of my hard work to earn an engineering degree. Ultimately, I opted for the hard hat and during the ceremony itself decided to tie my gold tassel onto the left side. Around my neck, in addition to my gold cord, I wore a white Society of Women Engineers (SWE) stole, and a bright blue cord for ResLife. 

Despite having a set order (so they could read out the correct name), we were handed a completely random diploma. Thus, following the main ceremony Smith has this thing called the diploma circle to redistribute the diplomas. I really didn’t like this part as I was at this point quite drained and quickly crashing following the excitement of officially graduating. Additionally, as Washburn is at the end of the alphabet I got to the diploma circle on the later side which made getting into the actual circle more difficult. Fortunately, as pictured above, I did ultimately get my diploma! 

[milo-is-rambling]

There’s just something about having a panic attack and trying to hurt yourself in the bathroom at your brothers graduation ceremony while your grandparents sit next to a photo of their dead son, your dead father, your mothers dead husband and you’re just trying not to sob but every breath puts pressure on your chest and you keep imagining the nurses giving your father cpr after he coded again for the third time you’re crying and trying to catch your breath and somehow everyone else is normal and holding it together and acting like this is fine and this is what it’s just gonna be like and you’re sobbing and bleeding and thinking about how you’re never going to graduate and you’re never going to be happy and how your father will always be dead and how you’re going to be mentally ill and broken forever and how you need prescription pills just to not want to kill yourself and you’re thinking about how much easier it would’ve been for your family if you had died instead of your father and you know you can’t do that and you can’t make that change and it’s done it’s over now this is how it is but you can’t help but imagine a world where everyone else is happy and your father is alive and maybe in some daydreams I’m alive too but now all I want is to sob alone in the car and scream and cry and I want to be alone again I need to be alone in my room at night smoking weed and ignoring my feelings I need to not be here I need to not be here but instead I’m breathing and collecting myself and trying so hard to pretend everything is okay

[folksy]

is it bad to mention I’m in my university’s honors college? idk I don’t always mention it when I go into the spiel about my studies bc I feel it’s like. idk not appropriate isn’t exactly what I’m thinking. maybe it makes me feel like I’m propping myself up too much. but in a way I already am bc I am a double major with a minor as well and I do share that 😭

[whatremained]

girl what do you mean my german classes are gonna be taken as college credit 😇

[incorrectbatfam]

It's graduation season and you know imma ask for batfam grad hcs

• Alfred missed his graduation because he was called to the military and didn't celebrate until after he moved to Gotham

• Bruce's name was somehow the only one the announcer goofed

• Kate celebrated leaving West Point by sticking a really big knife in a cake

• Selina crashed a lot of grad parties of people who didn't like her

• Luke had so many honor cords he had to wear some as belts

• Bette was valedictorian and snuck a Bruce Wayne Is Batman joke into her speech

• Barbara's graduation party witnessed the first and only time the Commissioner tried to breakdance

• Helena celebrated getting her teaching license with the kids she tutored

• Dick did a backflip across the stage

• Steph ordered catering from Waffle House

• Harper dropped out but set up fireworks anyway for the hell of it

• Cullen went from the unconfident freshman trying to be invisible to openly wearing a rainbow stole as he got his diploma

• Tim also dropped out but took people's grad photos in exchange for free food

• Duke decorated multiple caps and kept switching them out during the ceremony

• Carrie covered her robe with enamel pins that jangled when she walked

• Damian only RSVPed for the pets

• Cass graduated an online course and the family surprised her with her favorite midnight patrol breakfast

• Jason secretly finished school and is waiting for the day he can go "well actually…" and pull out his degree knowledge

[memories-of-ancients]

Roman Military Diploma (discharge papers) for a soldier named Dassius, dated 88 AD

"The Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, son of the deified Vespasian, pontifex maximus, holding the tribunician power for the eighth year, acclaimed "Imperator" seventeen times, having been consul fourteen times, censor for life, father of his country, has granted to the infantrymen and cavalry who are serving in five cavalry and two infantry companies, namely, the select Praetorian, the steadfast Gallic and Thracian, the Phrygian, the Sebastean, the Antian of Gauls and Thracians; the First Gaetulian cohort and the First Augustan Thracian cohort (which are in Syria serving under Publius Valerius Patruinus) and likewise to the men honorably discharged from these companies and cohorts who have served twenty-five years (their names are listed below), and to their children and descendants [to these the Emperor has granted] citizenship and the right of Roman marriage with the wives whom they had when citizenship was granted to them or, if any are unmarried, with those women whom they might marry later, with only one wife for each man. Dated on November 7 in the consulship of Manius Otacilius Catulus and Sextus Julius Sparsus [AD 88]. To the soldier Dassius, the son of Dasens, a Pannonian of the company of Phrygians commanded by Marcus Helenius Priscus. This copy has been checked against the bronze tablet posted at Rome on the Capitol on the left side wall of the Public Record Office."

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

[luceafarul-de-dimineata]

Random whb characters when MC is stressed about exams

In honor of my exams this year

Satan

He could feel you being a bit on edge every once in a while and whenever Ppyong left for the human world you would ask he got you some notebooks, which he found absurd

Why are you studying at a time like this? We're in a middle of a war! Why are you reading Morometii?!

Satan yanks your book from your hands

Mc: I need that! Give it back!

Satan: No! Mc! You understand that if you die in this war you're not going to take any exam!

Mc: Don't threaten me with a fun time

Satan: Suicide is not an option I'm ever giving you.

Gamigin

He can sense you're worrying about something, his nurse senses tingling

You can't hide anything from him, especially when it comes to your health

He'll lightly scold you for putting your wellbeing on the line for an exam, but he tries to understand the feeling better

If it's something to do with anatomy he'll help! And if he doesn't understand something he just takes it to Lucifer.

If it's about anything else, he'll listen to you. He's quite a swift learner, so he makes for the perfect student

MC: It's a story about loneliness and being crushed by the expectations of a grim capitalist society

Gamigin: Damn... why do you have to learn such things?

MC: So we're prepared for adulthood

Gamigin: You should move to Paradise Lost. We don't have this capitalism you speak of. I'll ask big brother Lucifer if he's ok with us sharing a bed!

Mammon

His master is stressed and now his protective insticts are kicking in

When you explain to him you're scared about exams, he'll be more confused than anything

Why are you even studying? He already owns everything and you own him. Why even bother learning to get a job

You try to explain that you need the diploma and that's when he gets it

You're greedy for grades and knowledge. Got it!

He hires the best tutors in the whole of hell to come mentor you. He also asks Buer to help relax you with massages and yoga. He's not entirely sure how they work, but they seem affective

He'll make sure that you don't just bury yourself in your studies and actually go outside and socialise every day

He is not combating the sugar daddy allegations

Mammon: How was your tutoring today, master?

MC: Really nice, but I'm exhausted...

Mammon: It's alright, I hired the best relaxation professionals to help you out. Something about taking away dark spirits.

MC: I think you got scamed by a cult...

Mammon: That's silly! I know Buer and he's very trustworthy. Should I carry you to your appoitment?

MC: Yes, please!

Asmodeus

Ah, yes, school, he forgot you had to do that

Well, he's a believer in learning by doing

If it's something practicle, he'll just put you in a situation where you have to deal with the problem discribed in your notebook

If it's something theoretical he's actually quite a smart guy, he'll help you out.

He'll play the devils advocate in every situation or try to confuse you. If you can outwit a skeptic you trully know what you're doing

He's surprisingly unsexual in these situations. Sure, he gropes you and insists on either cuddling or sitting on his lap, but he doesn't activate his charm until you're done

After all, he needs to show you he's the best mate you'll ever have by showcasing his vast knowledge of humanitarian studies

After he feels you've finished your lesson, he'll gladly take his pay and teach your virgin body knew pleasures. But he can be patient if it's for his mate

Asmodeus: So? What answer did you get for 57?

MC: It's B

Asmodeus: Are you sure?

MC: Yeah. Because if we take the oportunity cost only takes into account the most desirable choice we didn't take

Asmodeus: If you say so~

MC: I mean... let me check the answer sheet

Asmodeus: Nah nah nah, no cheating. I'm just asking, darling. Don't get impatient. If I can wait, so can you

MC: I hate you

Asmodeus: Such mean words from such a cute mouth. Now, let's do number 58