Occasion HandbookGraduation 9 examples

Graduation Message for a Best Friend

You were there for the bad version of this, so you are allowed to reference it. One sincere line, then back to normal.

Affectionate and rude

  1. 1 Congratulations. Against considerable evidence, you have a degree.
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  2. 2 You did it, and I want it on record that I predicted this in first year while you were crying in a stairwell.
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  3. 3 Delighted for you. Genuinely. Now stop talking about your dissertation.
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  4. 4 Well done. I carried you and you carried me and we are calling it even.
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The sincere one

Put exactly one of these in and the rest can be jokes.

  1. 5 You are the best thing about these three years and the degree is a distant second.
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  2. 6 I would not have finished without you and I am not going to pretend otherwise.
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  3. 7 Proud of you. Properly.
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If you are graduating too

  1. 8 We did it. Whatever happens next, we did this bit together.
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  2. 9 Same hat, same day, same photograph our mothers will frame. Congratulations.
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Questions people actually ask

What do you write in a graduation card for a friend?

One sincere sentence and the rest can be whatever your friendship normally sounds like. Without the sincere line it reads as a joke card; with it, the jokes work.