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The Retirement Newsletter: My last set of graduates?
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Welcome to issue -28 — My last set of graduates?
This week, a short newsletter (I’ve been busy doing other things) in which I look at what may be my last set of graduates and wrap up my trip to Sibu, Malaysia.
My last set of graduates?
This year could be my last year of graduates if all goes to plan. And it’s an odd feeling.
Graduation is one of the year markers.
Graduations signal the end of the academic year and the start of summer. But they don’t.
We have winter graduations and all the resits over the summer. However, for the majority of students, they signify the end of their academic careers.
Over my academic career, I must have attended about 40 graduations, which doesn’t include three of my own. I have done a lot of clapping.
I started working at a university as a lecturer last century. I tell my students this, and they look at me with pity and sympathy as they think I’m old. In most cases, I’m just a few years older than their parents. But, to my students, I’m old. And it worries me how quickly the time…
