Thankfully, we were in the last 5 rows of the upper deck (in the shade). It was extremely hot for those sitting in the sun, and once they began reading the names of the Ph.Ds it became very clear that it was going to take another 40 minutes before it was over since you could tell there were, maybe, 300+ names to be read and the person reading them was having pronunciation difficulties. When we saw our daughter (not a Ph.D) get up with her group of friends, we headed out to meet her on the lawn at Downer’s Grove. I asked her why she didn’t stay and she told me (i) they were really hot; (ii) everyone else was leaving; and (iii) the only real reason to stay was to throw your mortarboard in the air at the end. Was sort of wondering whether that happened - did anyone stay until the end? The funny thing is that at her college ceremony the next day (College of Business) there was not a well-defined end point and so no one did the toss.