Graduation?!

So this semester is my last semester in Graduate School in the Master's of Public Administration program. Who knew graduation would be so expensive, $95 graduation fee to the school $100 for announcements $600 for a college ring (I didn't get a high school or undergrad one). This is just now, I don't remember graduation being so expensive, I don't even think I did all this for undergrad, I remember having my cap and gown but I didn't send out announcements.

Never-the-less I am going to make my own announcements to send out as well I could only afford 25. I also am going to pursue my PhD, so around the middle of April I will be studying for the GRE, and in  June applying to Graduate Schools in NC and SC. Sigh the cost of education is HUGE! I will be paying off my college loans probably until I am 60