From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/30/2025 11:22 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:   
   > In article <10beh6n$35nur$1@dont-email.me>, petertrei@gmail.com   
   > (Cryptoengineer) wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> My college (King's College London) did have a ceremony, but it was   
   >> held the next fall, when I was already in the States.   
   >   
   > Incidentally, my degree ceremony was held just after the end of term.  I   
   > can't remember when I had my final exam, but the ceremony was 20th July,   
   > 1973, two days before my 20th birthday.  That was very young for getting   
   > a degree.   
      
   Cool! I finished at Kings about a week after my 21st birthday.   
      
   In the US, that's still sounds impressive, but in Britain at the   
   time, you got your undergraduate degree in three years. You put   
   your major down on your application form, and studied little else.   
   None of this 'spend a year or two finding your joy' stuff you get   
   in the US, with its four year degrees.   
      
   Frankly, I'd have preferred the four year system.   
      
   pt   
      
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