Graduation Song: You Raise Me Up - Josh Gorban Version

I think Josh Gorban is one of the best young soloists. I love his voice. He's added a new level or depth to "You Raise Me Up". Just watch this music video - probably one of the best graduation songs that's going to become a classic.

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How to Socialize in School

The count down to school is almost over. College have already started too. So if you're having a hard time adjusting to the new social circle you should definitely watch this video.

VideoJug: Social Adjustment

Remember if you're having a lot of difficulties approach your guidance counselor or a teacher/professor they can help you or guide you.

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How to Plan for Graduation at the Begining of the School Year

There's not a better time to think about Graduation than the time when you're going back to school or starting out in college. It is the most exciting time of the year and you can plan so many things -- including your graduation ahead of time. Eastern Oregon University has a check list for most majors. Ask around if your college or university has a checklist for graduation. The best places to ask are at the registrar's office and your department's office. Most likely they will have it if they don't have that you can make one yourself.

Here's a couple of questions to get you started on making your own graduation check list:

• What is the minimum credit hours required overall?
• What is the GPA required overall?
• What is the minimum credit hours required for course work?
• Are there any university/college writing requirements? What are they? (They can be tests, exams, term papers etc.)
• What are the required courses for your specific major?
• Are there any minor courses you're taking? What are they and what are their requirements?
• What are your major's elective courses? Which ones are you taking?
• Are there any other major/minor requirements for your degree? Write them down.
• Are there any other program (BS/BA) requirements?
• Check if you're qualified for honors. (You can even plan this ahead and make sure you qualify.)
• Calculate your credit hours and/or mark them as DONE at the end of each semester.
• When should you file for graduation? What's the deadline? Check in with your registrar.

Once you're done check in with a professor from your department or the best would be to check in with the head of department. They can tell you what you're missing.

Checklists are great when you can do them at the start of your college because you can set your goals and objectives. By the end of each semester or trimester you can check in on which courses you've completed and which courses you still need to do. This way you're geared towards your next enrollment and won't be stressed out with which course to choose. You can even be ahead of the crowd and get into the class you really want.

Have a great time back in school!


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Send Canada Day Greetings To Your Graduate Friends

On June 20, 1868, a proclamation signed by the Governor General, Lord Monck, called upon all Her Majesty's loving subjects throughout Canada to join in the celebration of the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada on July 1st.

The July 1 holiday was established by statute in 1879, under the name Dominion Day.

There is no record of organized ceremonies after this first anniversary, except for the 50th anniversary of Confederation in 1917, at which time the new Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, under construction, was dedicated as a memorial to the Fathers of Confederation and to the valour of Canadians fighting in the First World War in Europe.

The next celebration was held in 1927 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. It was highlighted by the laying of the cornerstone by the Governor General of the Confederation Building on Wellington Street and the inauguration of the Carillon in the Peace Tower.

Since 1958, the government has arranged for an annual observance of Canada's national day with the Secretary of State of Canada in charge of the coordination. The format provided for a Trooping the Colours ceremony on the lawn of Parliament Hill in the afternoon, a sunset ceremony in the evening followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display.

Another highlight was Canada's Centennial in 1967 when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II attended the celebrations with Parliament Hill again being the backdrop for a large scale official ceremony.

The format changed in 1968 with the addition of multicultural and professional concerts held on Parliament Hill including a nationally televised show. Up until 1975, the focus of the celebrations, under the name "Festival Canada", was held in the National Capital Region during the whole month of July and involved numerous cultural, artistic and sport activities, as well as municipalities and voluntary organizations. The celebration was cancelled in 1976 but was reactivated in 1977.

A new formula was developed in 1980 whereby the National Committee (the federal government organization charged with planning Canada's Birthday celebrations) stressed and sponsored the development of local celebrations all across Canada. "Seed money" was distributed to promote popular and amateur activities organized by volunteer groups in hundreds of local communities. The same approach was also followed for the 1981 celebrations with the addition of fireworks displays in 15 major cities across the nation.

On October 27, 1982, July 1st which was known as "Dominion Day" became "Canada Day".

Since 1985, Canada Day Committees are established in each province and territory to plan, organize and coordinate the Canada Day celebrations locally. Grants are provided by the Department to those committees.

Wish all your Graduating Friends specially your Canadian College buddies a happy Canada day on July 1st

	Wishes For Canada! Click a smile on your friend/ loved one's face with this canada day flash ecard. [ Flash ]		Happy Canada Day ! Reach out to all you knowwho is graduation this year with this virtual canada day ecard. [ Flash ]
	The Spirit Of Canada... A beautiful canada card to celebrate the glory of Canada with friends/ family/ loved ones. [ Flash ]		A Sparkling Day... Wish your near and dear ones a great day. [ Flash ]
	Filled With Fun... A fun Canadian wish just right for your friends/ sweetheart/ family. [ Flash ]		As Special As You Are... Wish someone special in your life with this ecard. [ Flash ]
	A Brighter Tomorrow ! Wish your near and dear ones a great celebration with this ecard. [ Flash ]		Friend Like You... Make your friend feel special with this ecard. [ Flash ]

	O Canada ! A truly patriotic wish for your loved ones. [ Flash ]		A Bunch Of Wishes... Wish your sweetheart/ friend/ family with this lovely canada day postcard. [ Postcard ]

Celebrating Graduations with Wisdom

Welcome to the June 20^th, 2007 edition of Celebrating Graduations - Graduation Blog Carnival!

This carnival is coming down to a close as Graduation Season is almost over. So here is departin advice from Nneka who shares with us Advice for Graduating Seniors. A big thanks and shout out goes to TherapyDoc who sends us her A 2007 Commencement Speech .
Here's a preview --

That concludes this edition of Celebrating Graduations. We'll be back probably with one last carnival just to conclude it properly. If you want to contribute to the carnival please submit your blog article to the next edition of Celebrating Graduationsusing Blog Carnival'scarnival submission form.
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Graduation Blog Carnival 3rd Edition

Welcome to the June 8^th, 2007 edition of Celebrating Graduations - Graduation Blog Carnival!

This carnival is not on schedule but there were submissions already in so I'm publishing them today. If you're at a loss to how to wish graduates congradulations you can always use flowers says Jessica Jones who posted about Wish with Flowers on Graduation. A big thanks and shout out goes to Karen Hall who warns us about being The Chat Room Addict, Teen Chat Rooms and the Possible Dangers.

That concludes this edition of Celebrating Graduations. We'll be back on our regular program on Monday. Happy weekend to you all. If you want to contribute to the carnival please submit your blog article to the next edition of Celebrating Graduations using Blog Carnival's carnival submission form.

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	Keep In Touch ! Ask your friends/ fellow grads to keep in touch with you with this cute ecard. [ Flash ]		Remain In Touch ! Send this elegant and inspiring ecard to ask your friends/ fellow grads to always remain in touch. [ Flash ]
	Always Stay In Touch ! Tell your friends/ fellow grads that you'll always remain in touch with this heartfelt ecard. [ Animated ]		Let's Keep In Touch ! Send this fun filled ecard to tell your friends/ fellow grads that you'll always keep in touch. [ Flash ]

Celebrating Graduations: Looking Back and Stepping Forward!

Welcome to the June 4^th, 2007 edition of Celebrating Graduations - Graduation Blog Carnival!

The theme for this carnival is "Looking Back and Stepping Forward". I really have to thank Rick Sincere who posted about May 22, 1977, which he wrote is "A reminiscence of my own high school graduation 30 years ago ..." A big thanks also goes to Ted Reimers who gives us CampusGrotto - Advice for Freshman Year saying "Here is some advice for high school graduates going on to college."
The biggest step taken forward are those of the graduating class of 2007. Bobby Cohoon had the privilege of attending the graduation of kindergarten class 20007 and talks about Graduation Day on Here in the Real World. Many thanks to Bobby Cohoon!


That concludes this edition of Celebrating Graduations. I'll be doing an additional carnival post as there are loads of posts that were submitted. If you want to contribute to the carnival please submit your blog article to the next edition of
Celebrating Graduations using Blog Carnival's carnival submission form.
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Life After Graduation: Your Career

I love reading Alison Doyle who is About.com's Guide to Job Searching And she wrote that there's a lot of career options for college senior graduating in 2007. The stories of the graduates range from going to work on a horse farm , to being Cinderella at Disney World, planting trees in Guatemala and starting finance careers on Wall Street.

Success Will Be Yours ! Send this beautiful ecard to inspire a young grad to go ahead and achieve his/ her dreams. [ Flash ]

Wishing You New Opportunities ! A warm and inspiring wish for all the new grads you know. [ Flash ]

Life right after graduation is really exciting times. You can go off on a trip and help out an NGO, travel or start off on your career immediately. Check out my posts on life after graduation. Whatever you do, don't be pressured to hop on the career track right away. But if you feel the need to, you should check out how to research your career options and Ten Steps to Career Change it's a good place to start there on your search.

May You Soar Like An Eagle ! Inspire your son/ daughter/ student/ dear one to reach greater heights with this beautiful ecard. [ Flash ]

Aspirations And Possibilities ! Encourage your son/ daughter/ student/ dear one to explore new possibilities in life with this inspiring thought. [ Flash ]

Don't forget Celebrating Graduations Blog Carnival continues on Monday! I'll be having more posts within the week because I'm getting more submission! Please spread the word and submit your articles/blog posts and graduation celebrations!

Celebrating Graduations - Commencement

Welcome to the May 28, 2007 edition of Celebrating Graduations - Graduation Blog Carnival!

I have the first entry for this week from TherapyDoc who wrote that "There really is a difference between them, you know." aboutCommecement at Every One Needs Therapy.
It's a really fitting post to start this blog carnival and big THANKS! to Therapy Doc. So without further ado, here's his post...

The truth? Graduation's a real trick box for me.

I missed every one of my own except for 8th grade. I graduated high school early and college late (with free housing and tuition, wouldn't you?)

Both the Master's and the PhD ceremonies at the University of Illinois took place on Saturdays.

So over the years I've made it my business to go to these things when I could, make a presence in the school auditoriums, bleachers and gyms. True, it wasn't easy sitting through the many leaps into eternity, but having a pager (in the days before cell phones we had pagers) it was easy to excuse myself to find a phone.

Therapy docs can get pretty busy, especially when someone's giving a speech.

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I love the costumes at these things, the robes, the tassels, the sashes, the ropes. I love the idea of 4,000 kids throwing their black caps into the air at the same time. I love seeing the college kids strutting and smiling, parents snapping pictures, getting it all on videotape. And there's the pride, the mutual sense of sacrifice (parents pay, pay, pay, for kids to learn, learn, learn). And the sheer press of humanity trying desperately to fill a football stadium or a basketball dome, knowing that without cell phones we'd all be separated in the throng forever (meet me at the top of the stairs outside to the left, past the turtle).

I love that the stadium is at capacity with people doing the right thing, suffering through the pomp and circumstance because their kids shouldn't have to go it alone. Nah, my parents couldn't make it. As children of a 2 working-parent household, my kids said that so many times. I came in late to so many school plays and I missed many, many things.

I love looking at the faces, mainly, and the clothes, the polyester, the silk, the leather, and the hair! The gray hair of the middle-aged juxtaposed against the long, jet black or brunette, blond locks of youth.

I just love the SCENE. I'm not even going to tell you how much I love a college campus, almost any college campus, and how red brick buildings drug me senselessly.

F.D., on the other hand, hates these things. We went to our son and daught-in-law's graduation at the University of Maryland yesterday.

"I hate these things," F.D. moaned.

D-I-L's mother: "I can think of a million things I'd rather be doing and should be doing. Can't you?"

Uh, no.

But again, I usually don't sit through the whole thing. I get up, I make calls. I walk around the entire periphery of the building. I look for art work, plaques. I read names.

And afterwards I still get to see the kids laughing and smiling, smacking those high fives with their friends.

Sunday night I DID sit through the whole thing. I sat through the WHOLE thing and IT WAS DREADFUL. The speeches were really horrible. So, so boring, and the one speech that could have been good, the one about selflessness and leadership rubbed me wrong. How could he tell us how selfless he is? Is it selfless to say you're selfless? I don't know. All I could do was shake my head.

This brought up the inevitable question, Could you, TherapyDoc, do a better job? Could you give a decent commencement speech?

No, I thought, probably not.

Oh, heck. Why not give it a try? What have we got to lose?

It's almost finished, actually.

Copyright 2007, therapydoc

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Celebrating Graduations Blog Carnival!

The months through May and June make up the highest amount of Graduation Celebrations. That's why I'm hosting a Graduation Blog Carnival! So send in your blog posts with photos and all to daverichards06@gmail.com and I'll be doing weekly posts. If there are more people submitting I might be doing a Daily Carnival until the end of June.

There are no real guidelines for the blog carnival except for no racist or derogatory posts -- keep your language clean -- aim for the rated G audience.

It has to be about Graduation -- any aspect of it.

Lets have a happy carnival!

	Your Friendship Is A Joy ! Wish your friends who have graduated with this warm and touching ecard [ Flash ]		2 Ape-solute Geniuses ! Make your friends/ fellow grads go LOL with this fun-to-the-max ecard. [ Interactive ]
	U R Cool And Smart ! Bring on the smiles of your friends who have graduated with this fun filled ecard. [ Flash ]		Hats Off To You My Friend ! Send this ecard to wish all those gals who have graduated with you and have been a great friend. [ Flash ]

Wish Congrats To Your Friends On Graduation

Congratulate your fellow classmates on their Graduation. You can also wish your Son, daughters and someone in your family for Graduating . Send these Congrats on your Graduation Greeting cards and make them feel special

	Your Hard Work Has Blossomed ! Reach out to the new grads you know with this warm and beautiful ecard. [ Flash ]		May Your Dreams Come True ! Congratulate and encourage all your dear ones who have graduated with this beautiful ecard. [ Flash ]
	Congrats To You ! Say congratulations to all the proud grads you know with this cool and cute ecard. [ Flash ]		Congrats On Graduating ! Appreciate the hard work of your friend/ fellow grad/ bro with this cool ecard. [ Flash ]
	Every Day Is Yours ! Make your daughter/ student/ friend feel special on her Graduation with this warm and inspiring wish. [ Flash ]		You Have It In You ! Congratulate your friend/ son/ daughter/ bro/ sis/ dear one on graduating with this cool and cute ecard. [ Flash ]
	Reach For The Stars ! Send this cute ecard to appreciate and encourage your friend/ bro/ sis/ loved one who has graduated. [ Flash ]		Scribe Success And Happiness ! Reach out to all the new grads you know with this warm and inspiring ecard. [ Flash ]

	Reach Out To Greater Success ! A warm and inspiring ecard to appreciate the hard work of all the new grads you know. [ Flash ]		Soar High ! Send this ecard to congratulate your son/ daughter/ student who has graduated and to inspire him/ her to move on. [ Flash ]
	Congratulations And Happy Graduation ! Congratulate a new grad for his/ her hard-earned Graduation with this cute ecard. [ Flash ]		Big Round Of Applause ! Say congratulations to your friend/ loved one with a big round of applause. [ Flash ]
	Here's To You ! A warm and beautiful ecard to congratulate a new graduate on his/ her success. [ Flash ]		Certificate For The Coolest Grad ! Congratulate a friend/ loved one who has graduated with this cool and cute ecard. [ Flash ]