(By Paige Dalto ’24, associate editor)
The end of the spring semester is rapidly approaching, and commencement weekend for the class of 2024 is coming with it.
On Friday, May 10, the baccalaureate ceremony, a service in celebration of the graduating class, will be held at 6:30 p.m. in Miller Chapel. At 7:30 p.m., the graduate and family reception, for undergraduate students only, will take place on the social quad.
The following morning, Saturday, May 11, the undergraduate ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. in Sorrentino Gymnasium. Doors will open at 9 a.m. The graduate ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. in the gymnasium, and doors will open at 1 p.m.
All students walking in commencement are required to wear their cap, gown and hood for their respective disciplines. In-store pickup of regalia will begin on Monday, April 22, in the College Bookstore.
Additionally, on April 22, undergraduate commencement packets will be available for pickup in the Mund concourse. The packets include four guest tickets, an instructional letter and a yellow card that indicates the student’s order in line of march. Packet pickup times are Monday, April 22, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Tuesday, April 23, from 3-5 p.m.; Thursday, April 25, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Wednesday, May 1, from 1-3 p.m.; and Friday, May 3, from 2-3:30 p.m.
Students unable to pick up their packet during the aforementioned times will be able to pick it up from the Registrar’s Office, Humanities 107, starting April 24. Packets can be retrieved anytime during business hours, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Undergraduate students will each receive four guest tickets for admission into the gymnasium. Overflow seating will be available in Arnold Arena for guests without tickets, and the undergraduate ceremony will be broadcast on a screen in the overflow seating area.
Graduate students, on the other hand, may bring up to eight guests to the ceremony. Admission to the gymnasium will be first-come, first-served. Overflow seating will also be available in Arnold Arena for this event.
If a graduate has unused tickets, they are permitted to share these with another student graduating in the same ceremony.
For guests unable to attend the event in person, a video of the full ceremony and a highlight video will be posted in the days following commencement. The ceremony will not be live streamed.