It's grauation time where I live; students are completing their grade 12 year and getting their diplomas. 
We've just gotten past that same time here. One of my friend's daughter just got her diploma. Now she wants a car!
I guess that is the next logical step, ha ha! Most students complete their diploma in 4 years here, how about you?
Same here. Of course many then aspire to go off to University. Unfortunately, the costs are skyrocketing while the quality is sagging.
Yes, university has gotten so expenssive. A medical school education now costs over a hundred thousand dollars. 
Yeah, well at least being an MD is liable to generate income. I have friends with that kind of debt who have Bachelor's degrees in literature!
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin "baccalaureus") or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin "baccalaureatus") is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline). In some institutions and educational systems, some bachelor's degrees can only be taken as graduate or postgraduate degrees after a first degree has been completed. In countries with qualifications frameworks, bachelor's degrees are normally one of the major
high school it seems like everyone has more drama than any other time in their life. So that was the time in my life where I really leaned on music as a way to stay sane," she said in an interview.
In her senior year of high school, she was expelled over what she described as "something stupid that I did, but it was sort of like the culmination of just a lot of negative things that had happened". She got her diploma at an alternative outreach center. She