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Universities and students are celebrating the graduating class of 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic with robots, 'Minecraft,' and 'Animal Crossing'

Moses told Business Insider that video footage of their virtual campus may be featured in the university's official online commencement ceremony, which will be held on May 29.A virtual surprise party: At the University of Southern California, Nimmi Kumar graduated with a mater's degree in social work, and her friends threw her virtual graduation in a video game where you claim an island and make it your own called "Animal Crossing.

So her friends threw her a surprise graduation ceremony on an "Animal Crossing" island to cheer her up."They chose the perfect time to have it since I was visiting my parents," Kumar told Business Insider. "I was genuinely surprised and everyone was crying."The ceremony was put together by Kumar's friends that she met in a Facebook group. They bonded over "Animal Crossing.

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