It may still be 2022, but before you know it, loved ones will be beaming with pride while their academic star collects a diploma to the tune of Edward Elgar’s famous processional, “Pomp and Circumstance.”
Now that commencements are back in the traditional sense — in person with a mostly mask-free audience — degree chasers stressing over exams and papers will pull all-nighters, as out-of-towners do overnighters. And like the grad candidates, family and friends have some homework to do — that is, unless they enjoy throwing money away and caution to the wind.
College graduations are a cap and gown-wearing cash cow for hotels in close proximity to commencement