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Date: 26 March 2004 07:14:12
Righto, finally graduation is over. It has been a long day with many photos and silly gowns and stuff like that. I didn't stuff up spectacularly (like falling down the stairs or anything) but the dean said afterwards that he had trouble catching my eye. I put this down to poor concentration rather than anything else. After the ceremony everyone pranced around on the lawns in the quad taking photos (it was terrible! It sort of reminded me of that bible verse - "when two or more are gathered on the lawn, then a flock of parents/siblings/friends with cameras will be with you"). I went to the pharmacy building with a few friends for more photos and found myself swept into the faculty common room by the dean for some... er... thing. It involved the people who'd got PhDs today. It was very odd. I think he saw us in the corridor and thought some token honours students would be nice. We were the only bachelor graduates in there and had no idea what we were there for. Turned out the dean wanted to acknowledge the "up and coming" post grad students and needed some to point at (even though of the four of us, one didn't do honours two have absolutely no intention of doing further study). Ah well. Thankfully it was over by the time I had to return the cloak and hood and hat thing.
All in all, it wasn't as terrible as I expected it to be but I'm terribly glad it's done with.