Wearing the Academic Garb

Bet you don't know this, do you?

A little pomp and circumstance, and an acknowledgement of an achievement. Plus, a justification of the investment in you that you and your folks had put in.

Congratulations.

No, it's not the Doctoral degree, at least not yet.

Trivia: The faculty and platform party wore regalia representative of the degrees and the institutions from which they earned them. Hence the multitude of colors and gown designs on stage.