Well, I'm not quite the graduate, but close enough. Tonight was the joint-graduation dinner for the four education Masters courses run through the Faculty of Education at Universiteit i Oslo. There was my mob, the Oslo-based Hedda higher ed students, and then the special needs and comparative education students also. I didn’t know a lot of the students from the latter two courses, but about 10-12 of us from the HEEM and Hedda courses gathered with academic and admin staff to mark the end of our two years of study.
The venue was the top floor of the University administration building, which surely has one of the best views in all of Oslo. Panoramic 270 degree views of the city, the fjord and the neighbouring mountains. It was really rather lovely. The uni had put on a nice meal for us and it was nice to see a few faces that I’d not seen for quite a while – some since back in first semester in 2006! My actual thesis defence is still a few days away so it not quite time to relax just yet, and for quite a few of my classmates the thesis might not be complete for another 6 months. Despite all this it was good to get a bit of closure and at least have one ceremony of sorts to mark the end of the degree.
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Wow, really a cool view from there! I'll ask the place for my graduation party as well... :-)
It's lovely up there! Next time you're back in Oslo you should check it out! :)
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