"It's a one-day thing, but everyone gets a graduation certificate," he said.
"When they get a graduation certificate, if it's in a certain field, they should have a green card stapled to it," said Mr. Murdoch.
Your anxiety fuels mine and I sink down into my dark, black hole place, and to overcompensate my voice is harsher than it should be -- lashing out that you must go to camp, that it will be really FUN and SPECIAL and you don't want to MISS this LAST DAY OF CAMP because they have a special ceremony on this LAST DAY OF CAMP and you will get a GRADUATION certificate.
Many students here, especially seniors nearing graduation, said that worries about the economy, and about getting a job after graduation, had filtered through the campus, dampening enthusiasm for Democrats in Congress and Mr. Obama.
Not getting a job upon graduation is seen as a potential career killer.
Worries about getting a job after graduation are particularly hard for international students whose families have made enormous financial sacrifices so they can study overseas.
(One plucky but underemployed group in New York went so far as to sue their alma mater for misrepresenting their chances of getting a job after graduation; the suit was thrown out).
"I want to make sure it's not just smoke and mirrors," said Ms. Shepherd, whose son in college worries about getting a job after graduation and whose daughter in high school wonders about paying for college.
MySpace, meanwhile, is the "cool working-class thing" for high school students getting a job after graduation rather than heading to the Ivy League, Boyd writes.
Students in Massachusetts with whom VICE News spoke cited the likelihood of getting a job after graduation as the main reason they plan to vote Republican.
