My graduation cap runs Rust
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Worth it, nicely done
Ah, yes, of course this is how it works in the US.
My issue with this type of thinking is it assumes "transport cost <<< manufacturing cost" -- a decent assumption for a lot of goods throughout a lot of history, but just... not really true for lots of things in a modern supply chain.
The cost of moving the gown between users -- in the form of the user needing to give back the gown to the service, who must then clean it, inspect it, etc. -- may in fact be far higher than the cost of manufacturing a new gown and only needing your supply lines to be "one way".
Being mindful of how much trash we produce does not necessitate producing less (or more!) -- but merely balancing the pros and cons.
They probably are fully gone now, but when I was in college some (IRL) classes, usually the big auditorium ones, added interactivity in the form of realtime polls and quizzes with a little “clicker” device. This was of course $30 or whatever and just used some custom RF protocol to register your vote across the room. Single-source, you have to buy it to be in the class.
Textbooks themselves, electronic or not, same racket. Professor is sold the book, but it’s the students who pay. (Don’t forget of course the scam of “writing your own math book” and requiring it!!)
Prisons: some private company always has a deal to “supply telephone service” and charges the inmates or their families rates that are higher than international long distance used to cost.
All of these things are sold to administrators who have no fiscal concerns with the service or product because the institution isn’t the one paying, so there’s zero pricing pressure. If there’s even multiple contractors in the niche, they are more incentivized to compete on sending cool freebies to the administrators, or add perks that benefit them, than they are to compete on pricing for the students/inmates/etc. like, say, Jostens might throw in “free school ID cards” which is technically “saving the school money” in order to get the yearbook contract, while making $100 a yearbook in gross profit on $150 yearbooks. Note: all numbers made up.
Academics, who attend many graduation events, often end up buying their own gown. I believe you are supposed to use the gown of the university you graduated from, so they must be for sale somewhere.
Once you have your own gown you can customize it. I haven't seen any profs with LEDs additions to their gowns, but adding extra pockets to hide a book or snacks is fair game.
Looks like Ede no longer sells my University gown but https://churchillgowns.com/ does. Again rent/buy.
Mine wasn't like that (and still isn't). Multiple friends of mine are graduating from NYU this month, and their situation isn't like like that either.
Every school I've ever encountered gives an option to purchase (with some being way more affordable than others). E.g., NYU JD (law school) cap and gown is roughly $98 to purchase (not to rent) this year.
However, I am shocked to hear that there is not even an option to purchase them at OP’s university. Many people like to keep them, especially the cap at least, as a souvenir, or their parents will keep it. Besides, couldn’t they make more money selling them?
Also, as a souvenir, the tassel, which is decorated with a charm showing the year graduated, is also always (obviously) yours to keep.
It’s very common in America for young people to hang that tassel from their car’s center rear-view mirror.
That’s what I did and people acted like this was a genius move. No, I am just broke.
I had a blast in undergrad, not at all because of the classes.
Marriages, graduations and funerals carry forward some traditions that haven’t made sense for generations. They are the irregular verbs of modern life. Interestingly, marriages and funerals often have a religious element, and religion itself is conservative—but graduation doesn’t have that excuse.
Ah, the final way that US universities transfer wealth from students to corporations... just before they start sending out begging letters for alumni donations to the poor, destitute university*
*: my university shuttered the CS graduate program the year I graduated, on the basis that "there are more jobs in communications", so I never donated a red cent
> What if, say, you say you’re fine without a cap and gown? Well, then you can’t walk in the ceremony. So you do need to shell out to rent them.
No, you don’t need to shell out. You get you diploma regardless of whether you participate in the ceremony or not.
I chose not to participate because I knew it would be long and boring, and I still got my diploma all the same.
You can't buy them from a 3rd party? Maybe a cheap Spirit Halloween costume? Maybe even make your own from cardboard and a black napkin or two?
Missed chance to be a school legend and initiation of a career launching arc.
But to be in a crowd of people all dressed the same, all graduating as well, having a gaming PC on your head might be too much main character energy.
Or the traditional post-commencement board mortaring where you light up and throw it into the air.
Actually that gives me an idea: a grad cap that is also a drone. So when you throw it up with everyone in celebration yours just keeps going.
Goodbye hat. I uploaded my student debt into you. Don’t come back.
Fun project though!
What? That would have been so much fun!
Uh...if you need a screen reader are the strobing lights really going to be a problem?
2. Yet again we have the need to announce Rust to the world, when the usage of it is inconsequential in this context
Besides, my biggest gripe is with point 2. Had it been just point 1, it could have been seen as just a tongue-in-cheek comment.
Still, if the lack of something of note was the main issue, just say that. Nitpicks like these are only informative to people who doesn't know how computers work. They can serve as fun tongue-in-cheeks, but that was seemingly not the intention here.
As it stands, in my eyes, this just a small fun project. How is the title even controversial? Because it has "Rust?"