commencement wear

Sent to me here in Malibu was commencement gear, in official DePaul University colors. Like most Ph.D.’s I skipped my graduation ceremony at the time. Who wants to pay $500 for academic gear at the end of a long period as a starving graduate student?

However:

*It’s a royal pain to keep going to the storeroom and trying on bland generic black robes twice per year. Now I won’t have to do it anymore.

*Associate Provosts should have nice-looking gear, not the generic stuff. DePaul’s colors are pretty nice: bright blue.

*It’s kind of cool to own one set of Medieval-type clothing.

Still, it’s around $500-$600 for this stuff, and I’ll only be wearing it an average of twice per year for about 3 hours each time.

Even if I work at a university into my early 70’s, that would still be about $10 per usage. It’s too expensive.