A week from today I’ll graduate from college. When I receive my diploma, I really hope all the words are spelled right. When my parents pick up the graduation program they’ll keep in a box labeled “David,” I hope everything will be spelled right. Although, I’m sure everyone wishes for the same things.
However, if you do and you graduated from Texas Christian University this year, your wish didn’t come true.
One place you can never make a spelling error in…a commencement program (H/T @bradsuttonpr, @sjernigan14) pic.twitter.com/cFaoZyxlqV
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 8, 2016
It looks like someone ignored the red squiggly line under “Univeristy.” I did so I could spell it wrong and it’s driving me insane.
To give some credit, university can sometimes be one of those words you read over and your mind puts it in the right order and you don’t notice it’s spelled wrong. But for it to happen on a commencement program? When something as important as this should be edited multiple times before releasing them to friends and families of the graduates. That’s not acceptable.
Sadly, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened and it definitely won’t be the last.
Back in 2013, Radford University held its commencement on campus in Radford, Virginia. Despite being in the state of Virginia, the school failed to spell Virginia right on diplomas. The final “i” was left out and the state was spelled “Virgina.”
After all, it’s not like these young men and women are graduating from college and just want a nice diploma with everything spelled right to display in their office or cubicle. Is that really too much to ask?
Syracuse University, please don’t spell anything wrong next week. I don’t want to have to go back in the freezing winter to get a new diploma when it’s negative ten out.
