Grad-specific options abound, but not without some major caveats. Theme gifts (think a mug or T-shirt stamped with something quippy about paying off student loans) can have a short of a shelf life. Something “grown-up” (classic leather briefcase, monogrammed gold watch) can be both impersonal and impractical. And someone has probably already gotten them a copy of All of the Places You’ll Go.
Our advice: Stop focusing on the occasion and start thinking about what someone moving into their first dorm room, signing their first lease, or starting their first full-time job might actually need. (Hint: It’s not a personalized lucite frame for their graduation cap tassel.)
