Congratulations, Fall 2022 Graduates
Congratulations, Fall 2022 Graduates
Please visit our Fall 2022 Convocation landing page to view a roll call of graduates and social media aggregator.
Nearly 150 graduates and their family members attended convocation ceremonies Dec. 16, 2022. Convocation took place in the UGA Fine Arts Auditorium followed by a graduation celebration a block away at Grady College.
The ceremony honored nearly 180 undergraduate students, and more than 50 graduate students, which included MFA Narrative Nonfiction and MFA Film students who graduated at the end of the summer.
One student, Shuoya Sun, earned a Ph.D. in journalism after presenting her thesis paper, “The effect of arousal spike positions under skippable and non-skippable in-stream video advertising and the underlying psychological mechanisms.”
The highlight of the convocation ceremony was a brief speech delivered by graduating senior Lindsay Richman, a public relations and Spanish major, who talked about the power of embracing change.
She talked about how she reinvented herself from a student who struggled in her early school years to one who rewrote her life script in high school, changing into an AP student. She had to regroup further when her mother died last May.
“The universe changes or eliminates the rules on us all the time,” Richman said. “You just have to see it. I’m not saying you have to lose someone close to you to realize your potential. But when life goes “un-according to plan”…the experience can become a catalyst that transforms us or unlocks whom we might have become one day in the distant future.”
She concluded her time challenging the graduates to have the courage to change, if needed.
“Whether we have jobs lined up or no idea what’s coming next, we can ask ourselves every day, ‘Is this where I want to be? Who I want to be? Am I living a life I’m proud of?’ And, if the answer is no, change it. Work for a better society. For a better you.”
Richman’s speech can be viewed beginning at the 5:00 minute mark in the convocation ceremony video below.
Please view the following UGGrady Flickr accounts to view pictures from the day:
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