Feeling tearful today

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Ok ok I know there are bigger things to worry about like people's health but am I allowed to just have a moan? Corona has taken away my last few months at university, I received an email today informing me I will get my graduation certificate through the post, my first holiday abroad in 10 years to celebrate my graduation looks to be a write off and I've lost my part time job in a school today, it's just shit 😔

It is. You’re right. You are totally allowed to feel like you do. I’m sorry your missing your last bit of uni and your holiday. Well done for graduating though! What is your degree in?

Thank you, it's in criminology and social policy. It took me so bloody long to get here, I left school with nothing, retook my GCSE's and did a foundation year to get here and I just feel like I've been robbed.

Congratulations!
Sorry your big celebration/holiday will have to wait.

Has your university categorically said that there will be no graduation ceremony? I’d assumed that my students would have one eventually, though obviously not when scheduled. You do need your degree certificate right away for job / postgraduate applications,, but I wouldn’t necessarily take that as confirmation that there will not be a ceremony at a later date.

I totally understand. I feel shit too. I was widowed in the final year of my degree so that was horrendous and I've finally got happy again and just finished my PhD and now my service is cancelled....

Not to mention we are terrified about my husband's job now and surviving the next few months

Yes, it probably will be re scheduled but I won't get the whole certificate thing because it will come in the post. It's shallow I know but things have all just piled up today and it feels like what else can it take from me, apart from my health obviously.

I had also worked in that job for 2 and a half years and I loved it. Not even any goodbye to the kids or anything to mark leaving. It's all just so sudden. It was a small pupil referral unit with only around ten kids so I had a close relationship with them.

Of course you are allowed to feel sad . I was just selling my company and retiring and moving . Now all gone .my husband is high risk as is my daughter in law . And I am scared as well . I had to cancel our anniversary holiday as well . We can all feel,sad it’s understandable . And all I hope is that we all survive without losing anyone.

Welcome to adulthood ... after uni nothing ever goes as planned .... you are alive and thats only a piece of paper ...

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Something crap and disappointing has happened to you, of course you're allowed to be upset and grieve the things you've lost. That's normal and part of processing what's happened and how important these things are to you.

When you graduate you don't receive the certificate it comes in the post!

Well done what an amazing achievement, bummer about the holiday and job

Come on @userxxxxxx I didnt actaully wrote it to be mean, so I am gonna stand behind it....

No harm in giving some perspective!! Are we all supposed to say "awww, there there".... cant we say "hey this is shit but it is life, nothing goes well anyway... you are alive and it is a piece of paper"...

Do you know what I felt tearful today.... our elderly neighbour is taken to the hospital, because she had a panic attack about catching CV... She is scared of dying so when the ambulance arrived, we go to the end of our driveway and wave her goodbye, we dont know if she will ever come back.....

I dont have to give the same reaction as you do .... and i am offering some perspective in a time of crisis all around the world, i am not gonna appologise for it....

When you graduate you don't receive the certificate it comes in the post!

It’s handed out at the ceremony usually.

We got handed a rolled up blank piece of paper on graduation day...