So... I'm a college drop out, but my family doesn't know. Graduation ceremony is a week away, and I'm already too deep to turn around.
Like. I bought a cap and gown and everything.
So, I figure it's best to go big or go home. But I need some help coming up with a solid plan.
Here is my to do list:
1. Buy a hood for the gown that I bought that matches everyone else (amazon prime it to my house say the school sent it a while ago and play it off the fact we don't check the mail often) since I didn't know I needed one.
2. Print out a hard stock copy of a seating card just to get into the graduation ceremony.
3. Looking at the history of the school and seeing online photos of diplomas, I think I could put something together that could mimic it. But, I'd need to figure out how to get them to call my name and in the right order of seating so it's not weird.
The most important thing to note is that, this is a solo mission. I don't have any friends in high places... but, I'm good at sneaking around and I'm light on my feet. Maybe it might come in handy.
Anything I should take into consideration (aside from the obvious getting caught)?
I take all my why, jam it into a jar, shake it up a little. Slam it onto the desk, open up the lid and make you take a peak inside. What do you see?
Gavin Campbell
How are you planning to bring your parents into the hall? Prints out fake invitation tickets? And anything involving getting your name called will royally fucked you.
Just give your parents some excuse for not attending the ceremony (expensive gown, busy dat day, hate your friends, etc) and you had arranged to deliver the scroll by post.
Isaac Ortiz
I believe this is what Reggie Watts would refer to as a “fuck shit stack”
Nicholas Nelson
to think if you'd put all this planning and ingenuity into actually passing your classes
Nathaniel Turner
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Adrian Reyes
>I'm already too deep to turn around.
it seems like a shit situation on all bases, but if you break the news sooner rather than later, your parents will respect you a lot more. Its better they find out you dropped out rather than find out their child lied to them about graduating, only to find out he's a drop out who had the nerve to try and trick them into believing otherwise. Even if you pull it off, what next? You cant get a job, and your parents are eventually going to ask you about how well off you are finding a job in your field. It's a sinking ship, and it's best to jump now before you're under water.
Connor Myers
seconded
Adrian Anderson
This is retarded op. No wonder you dropped out. Dip out of town for a couple weeks and feed your parents some crap about some last minute road trip you and your college pals took to enjoy your last couple moments of freedom. Fake some pictures of the trip and use the time to make a and ship a fake diploma or some shit. You're not getting into the ceremony and you're sure as shit not conning anyone into calling you're name.
Logan Mitchell
Fucking roasted.
Lucas Price
The college heads and old professors notice something is wrong, look into the issue. Realize the mistake, realize your scam, have campus security and local police escort your and your family off campus. Permanent bann from school.
Oo you fucking retard, lets say you pull this off, then what? How would you go about working in your field of study with no degree?
Gavin Myers
OP, you're rightfully getting dunked on, just tell your parents you're fucked. If you really need to pussy out of the truth, tell them that you got notifed last minute your grades got mixed up, and you just got notified you didn't get all your credits to graduate. Tell them there's nothing you or them can do, because it was your fault you fucked up last minute.
Then take a year off, and actually go back and finish your degree, fucktard.
Evan Perez
... Sounds like no one here is creative enough to think up a plan. Got it. I'll think of something myself.
Juan Brown
you will not pull this off and you will be humiliated, you will humiliate your family and they will probably hate you for it then you will come here cryin how could this happen making threads about your "suffering" stupid ass retard
Liam Edwards
Lol, sure thing bro. Its one thing to lie and convince your own mother of something. Its another to convince a college graduation ceremony to hand you a diploma that you didn't earn.
You are a failure. You are a fraud. You are lazy. You should feel ashamed for lying to your own family.
Imagine the look of pain, disgust, shame and dishonor your mother will have on her face when she realizes that you lied to her over the moment she has been waiting for since you were born.
Watch her rightly disown you over this.
Evan Lee
Your plan is as half baked as they come.
Josiah Morgan
I don't think you quite grasp the sheer ludicrousness of your predicament. Look OP, when I was 16, I dated this guy LDR who was 21-22 - I told him I was 18. I proceeded to date him for a year, and we made plans to move to a different state after another year or so. I CONVINCED myself I could do it, I looked into getting fake IDs, education, jobs, craigslist, I thought I for sure could run away from home and make this happen. It was fucking stupid, I was a fucking idiot for thinking I could do it. My family found out about him and it was a shit show.
I don't think you should tell your parents right now that you're not graduating, I strongly suggest either becoming violently ill or breaking a bone to get out of it day of. But anything that you think you can scheme and "pretend" to graduate, will absolutely, not work. You already said it yourself: I have no one to help me do this/no connections So if you don't have a friend that can maybe pull a few strings for you, you're SOL, and even if you did there's probably about a 1% chance it would work. You don't have that friend, 0% chance. Stop being a naive retard.
Joshua King
just delay the moment by killing yourself. sure they will find out at some point that you didnt graduate but that would be so eclipsed by your death that they wont care anymore when they do!
David Scott
His own classmates will call his pathetic ass out:
Levi Ross
Professor writing here.
Trust me - it's impossible.
You just might get away with it if they weren't coming to the ceremony and you could fake some photos. But security is tight at these events, everything (like the list of names) is planned out and triple checked to avoid errors, and no photoshopped diploma will look anything but phony.
If you are determined to do this - and it is a really, really bad idea - try inventing the lie that your particular college or department doesn't take part in the ceremony and diplomas are mailed out later..
But it would be FAR FAR better to half-lie. Underplay the extent of your dropping out, say you somehow missed one or two requirements and will have to make them up to get your diploma. That might buy you some time. And if you actually do go back to school you can later admit that it was more than a couple of classes.
Charles Harris
> say you somehow missed one or two requirements and will have to make them up to get your diploma.
That's pretty good advice. You can even drop out afterwards, saying you feel burned out or are suffering from depression, then go back a year later and say you have to repeat quite a few things/changed courses slightly so it's going to take longer.
but you're a sad man OP, and not worth the attitude you have
Jace Cook
Just tell your parents you dropped out. At least you have a job (I assume that you don't use your parents money to fake graduation).
Brody Martin
Bruh, you are as retarded as they come. I've been involved in the organizing of graduation ceremonies and you have absolutely no hope of getting into the ceremony.
1. The list of graduands is electronically logged months in advance in order to get the number of seats needed.
2. Certificates for graduands are printed according to the said log.
3. If you had any chance in pulling it off you would have had to know a university administrator with access to the grad records to insert your name MONTHS AGO. Pretty much straight after results are in graduations are planned.
4. The gowns, hoods and hats are not universal and are usually hired put within the university to students. You would have to steal a gown and cap and the hood that corresponds to your faculty of education.
5. The faculty in attendance will know you haven't passed and tell the chancellor/ vice-chancellor of your fucktardery.
So, shithead, you better come clean to your parents before you lose every ounce of respect you still have. If you do this you will get caught and be forever known as the failure who tried to fake his grad.
Jose Collins
Okay, I get maybe not going to the ceremony because it's too much. But what should I do?
The reason I can't just tell my parents is because my mom might literally die from the anger she'd feel. I know that I got myself into this mess, and that I'm retarded and everything, but honestly it's not all my fault for dropping out.
I don't really know how to describe my relationship with my mom. I respect and love her, but I'm also afraid of her. She's always been verbally abusive over minor things (for example... like if you accidentally spill a liquid she'll blow up even though you can easily clean it up) and gets herself SUPER stressed out even though she has a weak heart. She's more manipulative than I am, and I've seen her actually throw and break things because she caught my brother dming someone on Twitter (he was 16 and it was his friend). Im saying this because she's been like that my whole life, so I grew up super nervous and cautious of her and the things I do. My whole life revolves around her, and because of it I'm half the person I should be. I'm overly sensitive, I can't even speak in a serious tone without crying, I lie about anything that would make someone mad at me. One time I tried to kill myself because college was getting the best of me, and when my parents found out my dad got so mad at me but I could tell he was genuinely concerned. All my mom said was that she knew out of all her kids that I'd be the one to try to kill themselves. But I can't help that despite all of that, I love her and care for her. I realize that it's probably some weird version of Stockholm Syndrome, but I don't want to be the reason I lose her.
What I'm trying to say is that I can't just tell her that I didn't graduate. She very sick right now and I'm afraid of what will happen to her.
Also, if I do make a fake diploma, I'm not stupid enough to apply for a job with it. I'll just get a state job and play it off as something I got just to pay bills for the time being.
Blake Turner
Bruh you have a penis you shouldn’t be scared of a woman
Cameron Hughes
You are adult. Parents don't have power over you. Tell the truth. If you don't want your mom to blame herself just tell them you have to go find yourself or some other rebel bullshit.
Alexander Rogers
You have two parents fucktard. Break it to your dad first and say you need help telling mom cause you're afraid she would literally die or go on a killing spree or whatever if your dad doesn't help stand by you. But yeah, spin it to stress that you only need one more semester and that you still fully intend to graduate next semester.
Ayden Morgan
Jow Forums giving the good Jow Forumsice.
OP just say that you don't want to participate in that stupid ceremony that gets you even more money after taking all the stupid gen eds and your only useful major classes. The only thing you should fake is your diploma, which you should be able to look in every social media (even instagram) so that you "graduated" and got the stupid piece of paper.
Josiah Reyes
OP, don't worry I did the same thing. Except my University had a contingency for shit like this and let's everyone walk for graduation granted they filled out the paperwork for "Graduating this Semester" in the online portal. They do this because plenty of people have to repeat shit or do summer classes, but still want to walk in the spring or when they were supposed to graduate.
You sure there's no way you can still walk without ""actually"" graduating? Maybe talk to a counselor or something.
Owen Gutierrez
Let me add that the "diploma" they give you on stage is fake, because you're only a "graduate candidate." So you can always say, no matter what "real diploma is in the mail." And they do this shit because grades aren't always in at graduation walk too.