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Barmymoo:
The Cambridge system is basically the same as the Oxford one, I think. There's also the same system for converting your BA into an MA seven years after you matriculate (usually four years after you graduate, although three if like me you took a year out in the middle) for no reason whatsoever.
I think my personal degree will be a Bloody Aimless in law.
pwhodges:
I imagine that Cambridge is also like Oxford in that you do not have your degree until it has been conferred on you at a degree ceremony. I have not been to a degree ceremony, so throughout my life I have meticulously put on job applications "Second-class honours in Engineering Science" rather than "BA in Engineering Science". Note that a second in my day was what's now called a 2.1 - what's now called a third was a fourth at that time in Oxford!
I do not plan to go to a degree ceremony to collect my BA when I'm 75 or something. That sort of thing is for people who like to see themselves in the local paper, and is unutterably naff. I was even able to become a member of Congregation (the greater governing body of the university) without such niceties.
Lupercal:
After writing for three hours this morning on T.S Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, my undergraduate degree is officially finished!
Its been a bit of an anticlimactic day, but I can't wait for the future times where I don't have to study!
Now, I have to make a cover letter sound perfect in order to try and get a job at a legal publishers in Cambridge...out of the frying pan, almost.
Barmymoo:
Really, Paul? I didn't know that! I'm not sure whether it's the case here or not, I believe they can "confer" your degree by post but you don't get to do the weird latin stuff and the finger-pulling. I do plan on going to my graduation, but there's a chance I might be living in the US by then. Who knows?
pwhodges:
Oxford degree ceremonies are held every two months throughout the year*; so you just arrange to go to the first convenient one. The fee was in my day covered by the grant if you went within a year, but now I'd have to pay up.
* It keeps a regular supply of ceremonial going for the tourists!
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