From: jl@glen--canyon.com   
      
   On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 09:01:50 +0000, Jeff Layman    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 04/11/2025 21:45, john larkin wrote:   
   >   
   >> I skipped my graduation. Can you imagine standing around for hours in   
   >> a black robe in the sun in New Orleans listening to fatheads talk?   
   >   
   >As did I, as I can't stand most formal ceremony.   
   >   
   >It's a complete waste of time standing in line in fancy dress waiting to   
   >be called and shake hands with someone you've almost certainly never   
   >heard of, and be handed your degree certificate. As it happened I got   
   >mine by post several days before anyone who attended the event.   
   >   
   >It used to be the case that in Oxford and Cambridge you were refused   
   >graduation unless you attended the formal degree presentation ceremony   
   >in person, although that is no longer the case. Amazingly, though, the   
   >ceremony is still conducted in Latin! Lots more waffle here:   
   >   
      
   Attendance at my Tulane graduation was mandatory, but I got my boss to   
   write a letter saying that I had to be out on a sea trial, so they let   
   me off.   
      
   We did attend my daughters MBA ceremony at UC Berkeley, but that was   
   actually nice. It's a beautiful campus (walk it if ever you can) and   
   we had drinks at the faculty club.   
      
   I moved to California as the result of a walk across the Berkeley   
   campus. That's another story.   
      
      
   John Larkin   
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