Graduation Bling

Any form of honors that are outwardly expressed while graduating from an academic institution. Includes, but is not limited to, medals for GPA (cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude), honor society cords or silk throw-overs, and maybe even fireworks if you're a complete badass.

I joined five honor societies in my time at college. I had mad graduation bling, yo.

by J. Saynt September 18, 2009

gradiate

The unofficial verb of gradient, often used in image manipulation.

If you create landscape pictures, you'll need to gradiate sunsets to make them look realistic.

by TheLastGoodSubmitter July 19, 2013

gradulate

To congratulate someone when you have little to no knowledge of their accomplishments. Or their names. Or English.

I'd like to gradulate the Florida Gators, Corch Urban Meyers, Percy Harveys, and the athletic school on winning a championship in the BCS Playoffs.

by Tom Quisan March 20, 2009

grammateur

an individual that uses poor grammar, either inadvertently or deliberately.

Bob never uses "their" and "there" properly in his emails. He's such a grammateur.

by chawalte January 23, 2010

graduation

a ceremony in which all participants are wearing identical caps and identical gowns. The class speaker will usually state that the key to success is individuality.

At graduation, Mr. Anderson stated in order to be successful one must branch out from the rest.

by baybay23 April 5, 2009

graduate student

One who chooses to add to the breadth of their education by embarking upon a program that may award him/her a master's degree, a Ph.D, or no degree at all. While this decision may, under very particular circumstances, lead to a position as a tenured professor in a university, it will most likely lead to a decade or more of delaying the individual's entry to what most people would call the "real" world. Becoming a graduate student allows one to enter the self-perpetuating institution of academia.

Ex. 1
Typical sign in a physical sciences laboratory: "Do not feed graduate students and other lab animals."

Ex. 2
Grad student: "I'm writing a thesis on the remnants of Victorian culture in modern stereotypes of Transylvania."

Friend: "What are you going to use that for?"

Grad student: "I hope to become an English professor because if I'm lucky, I may one day out-earn high school teachers."

by academicbubble January 7, 2012

graduation

The best/worst thing for a high-schooler to experience before they take their leap into the real world. A last chance for friends/crushes/acquaintances/etc. to get together for the last time, and, hopefully, get phone numbers/e-mail addresses/Myspaces to talk to each other after they all leave high school.

At graduation, I tried to kiss my than girlfriend, she moved away from the kiss, and told me that she was cheating on me someone else. She than proceeded to graduate while my dad took a picture of us standing together with our diploma covers. Needless to say, my graduation sucked ass. Also, don't throw your caps when you graduate. I did, and got back one without a graduating class pin.

by DJ Retro June 18, 2007