Diploma Dash

A game by Rachel Thieman

It’s been 18 years of constant learning, working on assignments, and sitting in dark & depressing classrooms. You have yearned for the chance to walk across that stage and hold that piece of paper in your hand saying you’re a college graduate. As you go into finals week your head is full of stress. There are thought of failing, not making it to graduation weekend, being denied your diploma on stage in front of all of your peers and your family. Every night you fall asleep and there you are in your red cap and gown looking directly at your diploma but right as you start to move toward it… it moves away. It seems unattainable. There is no way to collect it, it just keeps bouncing along forever. This feeling is ever present in each rising graduate.

Is this a joke? Will they lose my diploma? What if I get sick and can’t even make it to graduation?

Chances are everything will be fine.

UNLESS you’re dreaming of Diploma Dash...