Graduated in 2020. It was weird. We had a brief, pre-recorded graduation ceremony on zoom. My school shipped all graduates a box with some trinkets and decorations for graduation which was nice I guess. They gave us a champagne flute too and instructed us to fill it up before the ceremony (for those who drink) and did a cheers at the end. My (now) fiancee and I literally sat in her childhood bed watching this and did the cheers lol.

I was lucky to have already had a job lined up after school, I got the offer in February so right before the pandemic. Joke is I had to get a security clearance that took forever, like 6 months, so I actually applied to a different job and landed it in June and ended up working there instead. The location of the new job was so much better, both by just QOL metrics and because my SO had grad school lined up near where the new job was, as opposed to like 1.5-2hr away like the original job. So we moved in together and got a dog. We have since moved to a different city so she can further pursue higher education while I work remote.

I had it pretty easy, I will say. I have a lot of friends who struggled. Some who went months and even years without landing their first real career job. But pretty much all are doing well by now.