Page 2 | Whooping at a graduation

Mercurial123 · 07/08/2025 22:07

This is peak MN, some of you need to lighten up. Needless to say there was cheering and whooping at my graduation and I remember it fondly. A polite hand clap is so dull.

JamesWebbSpaceTelescope · 07/08/2025 22:10

At my DD’s graduation the VC actually encouraged whooping in his speech and vigorous clapping and foot stamping.

jeaux90 · 07/08/2025 22:13

JFC you sound boring. They are students. Do you work in industry? People cheer all the time when there is any kind of public recognition.

ilovesooty · 07/08/2025 22:14

I think you have to realise that your standards at an event are not necessarily shared by other people.

Bambamhoohoo · 07/08/2025 22:17

People seem to be getting quite wound up by graduation “additions” lately- whooping, bringing a child or dog with you, donning a flag, dancing.

it’s only a graduation. It just exists to celebrate academic achievement. Who cares?

TragicMuse · 07/08/2025 22:18

I graduated in the 90s and it was a solemn affair. I was proud but it was rather serious rather than joyful.

Last month I went to watch graduation at the university where I now work and it was full of whoops and cheers, it was a wonderful joyous occasion.

I’ll be attending my own MA graduation next year and I hope to god there will be whoops and cheers.

It’s a celebration not a wake.

Charlieangle · 07/08/2025 22:18

We were encouraged to whoop and clap. It’s a celebration. The University actively asked us to clap and cheer loudly. My child survived a cardiac arrest. We whooped very loudly!

Gowlett · 07/08/2025 22:20

I like a good whoop!

myplace · 07/08/2025 22:22

I think the students whooped for each other as well- perhaps particularly for students who had overcome adversity or maybe didn’t have family present. This was at DSs.

Cuddlesup · 07/08/2025 22:23

I’m not a fan of whooping.

NerrSnerr · 07/08/2025 22:24

Messycoo · 07/08/2025 21:55

Yes it is crass and we are not Americans!

What’s wrong with being American?

Catsandcannedbeans · 07/08/2025 22:26

My dad woooped for me like his team had won the league 😭. It was a bit embarrassing but at the end of the day seeing him proud and excited was nice, that’s just how he is. My mum found it crass though and in the video of me walking on stage you can hear him woop and then my my saying “stop it, this isn’t a football game” - one of the many home videoed that illustrates why they got divorced.

Catsandcannedbeans · 07/08/2025 22:26

My dad woooped for me like his team had won the league 😭. It was a bit embarrassing but at the end of the day seeing him proud and excited was nice, that’s just how he is. My mum found it crass though and in the video of me walking on stage you can hear him woop and then my my saying “stop it, this isn’t a football game” - one of the many home videoed that illustrates why they got divorced.

NerrSnerr · 07/08/2025 22:27

I graduated 20 years ago and our whole cohort cheered everyone on our course. It’s not supposed to be a solemn affair.

Dappy777 · 07/08/2025 22:38

I hate whooping. So vulgar and ugly. Makes me think of Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey. I completely understand how you feel. Definitely not appropriate at such an event.

TulipTuesday · 07/08/2025 22:43

My older brother and I let out a little whoop when our baby brother graduated.

He was the first in our family to go to university and he’d dealt with the loss of both of our parents while he’d studied. So he damn well deserved a whoop.

Mercurial123 · 07/08/2025 22:45

Dappy777 · 07/08/2025 22:38

I hate whooping. So vulgar and ugly. Makes me think of Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey. I completely understand how you feel. Definitely not appropriate at such an event.

😆 calm down Hyacinth.

Isitreallysohard · 07/08/2025 22:46

Lighten up OP 😒 You must be fun at parties 😐

niadainud · 07/08/2025 22:47

I hate whooping. I went to a musical the other day and there was whooping at the end of every song. Really bloody tedious.

Victoria39 · 07/08/2025 22:47

Welliesandtweed · 07/08/2025 18:35

I attended my sisters MSc graduation today. Mostly undergraduates and a few post grads.

There were some sections of the audience whooping when the names were called out. Is it not a little crass to whooping at a formal event.

This is every where now I’m sad to say, even at my children’s sports day there was shouty parents and then some was so bad they cheered for certain kids (aswell as there own) but not others. Nasty

Victoria39 · 07/08/2025 22:48

SapphOhNo · 07/08/2025 18:43

Its not a solemn event. It's a celebration of what students have achieved. Whooping is fine.

There adults not toddlers 🙄

Londonmummy66 · 07/08/2025 22:48

Perfectly acceptable - so long as you whoop in Latin....

Mycatsrulex2 · 07/08/2025 22:51

I definitely whooped at my sons graduation, he was the first to graduate out of both mine and my husbands family, I was unbelievably proud of him and it showed. One of his friends who was at the side of him laughed and my son just said to him "that's my mum". It was one of the best days ever!

Arlanymor · 07/08/2025 22:54

Some people have overcome massive barriers to make these achievements. They’re not whooping in your house, they are having one moment to celebrate what honestly may have never even been imagined for their graduating loved one and doing in the actual place where it should be celebrated. It’s not cricket and cucumber sandwiches… polite claps is preferred? Come on. Joy is joy. And it’s not like it lasted for a million years. Sorry if your graduate’s surname started with a ‘W’! Churlish and joyless - if they did a strip tease I would be with you - but for the sake of a couple of hours you could have worn ear plugs or even ear buds if it bothered you that much…

skippy67 · 07/08/2025 22:56

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