Graduation Day Arrives!

Finally, we got to celebrate our graduation with a ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall. The ceremony commemorates the visit of the King to Imperial College in 1945, and is held on the last Wednesday in October every year.

You can see a rather dopey looking me in the picture on the left ... and indeed in most of the photos!

The ceremony itself is mostly not exciting, but it's good to see friends from various departments walk across the stage. An oddity of Imperial's ceremony is that you don't actually receive anything - no degree certificate, no ACGI certificate. You just walk across the stage, shake hands with the faculty principal and walk back off again.

It was good to see people I hadn't seen since we finished, even if I didn't get to talk to all of them! We managed to get a group photo, in a paparazzi-style, flashes from all directions shoot:

Some more photos: me in front of the Royal Albert Hall and me with Jez, Bo' and Clem.

And of course, Ivanka graduated too! As you can see, it was a tiring day.


Finally, there were three people from RCS Motor Club graduating in the morning ceremony, so I had a picture done with Teddy and Iv, on Jez: