Graduate Gift Ideas (List of) and Graduation Sayings

Graduate Gift Ideas and Graduation Sayings or skip the presents and go directly to the limerick poems?

The Successful Graduate!

Graduate Gift Ideas and some hilarious graduation sayings - as limericks, of course: pre-school, kindergarten, college, and even for going on to grad school. These graduation verses will amuse the honoree, or at least, you, who have "been there; done that."

Ok, just kidding...here's the real list..Ok, not kidding...but here's other ideas anyway for graduation day:

Parents

• a trip to Europe (she needs a break!)
• new laptop (the one from college is half dead)
• luggage
• a top-of-the-line new phone for taking potential employer's calls
• brief case
• watch (tradition)
• non-particle board furniture for her new apartment
• services (these should be given well before graduation day)
• pay for preparation courses for graduate school (GMAT, GRE)
• pay for a top notch resume writing service

Siblings

• Graduation scrapbook or a CD you have carefully constructed of graduation images with his favorite music
• a certificate for a massage
• books relating to the grad's career hopes or resume writing
• comfort items such as new pjs for the next school
• business shirts - whites and blues - (ask Mom the size)
• running shoes (the ones from college are kaput)
• pen set (tradition)

Friends and Relatives

• plane tickets to and use of your vacation condo for a post graduation vacation
• a Eurail (or Eurorail) pass for the graduate's upcoming European tour
• a gift certificate for clothing at a good, local department store (grad needs a business wardrobe)
• a certificate at a beauty salon (you'll have to ask Mom which one she prefers)
• laptop case
• a decent camera with lots of mega pixels

Graduate Gift Ideas for All Friends and Relatives

• A willingness to share your "six degrees" of connection for networking and your quality resources.
• If you have business or professional clout, a willingness to write a strong and positive letter of recommendation.
• Take the young grad to your Chamber of Commerce meetings and other business associations and introduce her (order a generic box of business cards for the grad to pass around - linen texture, white color and matte finish - with accurate contact information, simple and elegant with no pictures).

Preschool Graduation Ideas

Pomp and Circumstance here is a crime
Buy some kid's poetry books that rhyme
Or a trip to the store
Pick a toy he'll adore
The best gift for pre-schoolers? - Your time.

Kindergarten

Oh, isn't that sweet, caps and gowns
To leave kindergarten? The grounds
For such hopeful display
Eludes some folks who say
That they look a bit like little clowns.

Graduation Sayings

College life is the "ultimate cool"
There's so much freedom there, that the fool
May spend all of his time
Socializing, and find
In four years, he's not in the job pool.

Graduation Poetry

You've finally arrived at the day
You're escaping the campus. They say
That your life begins now
Are you wondering how
With those HUGE student loans to repay?

Graduation Verses

You're going to "graduate school"
For a great doctorate? So that's cool!
Do an MD or law?
Or be published "et al"
As a chemist with her molecule?

More Graduation Sayings

The grad student must make presentation
Of research that displays the creation
Of original work
(That could drive you berserk)
So start NOW writing your dissertation