[attention whoring] Antonio V, M.A.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Now get a job, dude ...

Not for another 5-7 years.

Typical socialist European welfare queen

And I'll be mooching off American money! Good thing US universities are so generous with their doctoral students.

Congratulations! My MA graduation was an odd thing as well, but that was entirely because I am a deeply strange person.

In what way? I'm curious.

[retromike22]

Congrats fellow Master's degree holder!

Congratulations!

What are your plans now?

I've already been admitted to UCLA for a PhD, will be moving to LA in early September.

Yayyyyyy!

[H. Ross Peron]

Congratulations, Antonio! I hope you enjoy Southern California!

[DS0816]

I graduated yesterday! …

Congratulations, Antonio V!

[Antonio the Sixth]

And today, I got my visa back as well! Almost ready to go...

[Indy Texas]

I graduated yesterday!

After 5 years at Sciences Po, I attended the official graduation ceremony, received my Master's Degree (Cum Laude), and said goodbye to my university and my friends.

The ceremony wasn't nearly as epic what you get in the US (we didn't even get graduation gowns! ), but it was pretty nice. We had a few good speeches, and we all got to be filmed on stage for a couple seconds. My parents were there, obviously, and after the ceremony I got to hang out with my friends from the Polisci program. Pretty great afternoon and night all around!

I've always been curious as to why European graduation ceremonies are so...underwhelming.

Someone I went to high school with got an MBA from some university in France and posted pictures of the ceremony on Facebook - they were basically just wearing business casual clothes and having their diplomas handed to them in what looked like a small courtyard (the diplomas weren't even in folios or frames - just pieces of paper). A co-worker who went to college in Scotland has her diploma in her office and it looks like she could have just printed it out herself on an inkjet printer. No engraved vellum for them, apparently.

What gives, Europe?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Your friend was still luckier than I was. I didn't even get my actual diploma, just a commemorative piece of paper with the names of the graduates on it. Apparently Sciences Po doesn't even issue paper diplomas anymore, just digital ones. And even then, I won't get it until October or something.

That makes me sick.

[muon2]

If it's digital why does it take three months?

[Antonio the Sixth]

If it's digital why does it take three months?

I have no clue. Apparently it uses some kind of complex online verification system to guarantee authenticity, so maybe it might take some time to enable it. Or alternatively, it might just be because the Sciences Po administration is completely useless.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Five years ago today, I graduated from High School. It's strange, it both feels like it was yesterday and like it was a century ago, I can't sort it out. Everything has changed so much since those days.