Master Of One Trade

Graduated with a Master's Degree in Computer Science Saturday.

Phew ! The Convocation Ceremony is some experience - albeit an exhausting one.
There are so many PhD graduates - and for each there is usually a "Prof. XYZ" who "assists with the hooding." And if that is not elaborate and time-consuming enough, the person on stage repeats the above sentence every single time. I'm sure he must have woken up several times in the middle of the night muttering something about Professors and hoods much to his wife's distress. My - apply a little bit of "common" arithmetic here - by common I mean the method of taking out the common factor - we all know that the person who "will assist with the hooding" is a "Professor" and that he will indeed "assist with the hooding" - take that out of the brackets for goodness sake. Just say the names of the Professor and the student !! And to put the icing on the cake, we need to sit through this for 2 hours wearing not only the graduation gown, a piece of cloth which is undoubtedly an honor and a privilege but also one that generates extreme body heat when adorned, but also a blazer and a tie, on chairs that are placed infinitesimally apart.

But all in all, it is an occasion to remember - with family and friends watching - it feels nice. I dont know whether I will ever be experiencing that feeling again.