Shot a life coach in Reno, just to watch him re-evaluate personal goals. Monday, April 19, 2010 School's out This is not a graphs and tables sort of blog, but we interrupt your usual service to bring you an exclusive table from New Zealand's leading university . Pictured below is a table showing the numbers of academic staff from the Faculty of Arts who will be attending graduation ceremonies. To put it another way, your students spend at least three years and several thousand dollars earning degrees in non-vocational subjects which probably will never earn them much money, but which they took for the love of learning. Friday 16 April is their big day, the day they get to wear gowns, accept their degrees, process down Queen Street and show their family and friends that they made it, that all the hard work is done and that this day marks the biggest achievement of their young lives. 5 comments: Tom said... So what? All the dressing up and silly hats is pompous fake tradition at its worst (not that I've ever been to a degree ceremony. I have always thought that they were too silly to want to go near one). Besides, does getting a degree really mark the biggest achievement of someone's life? They paid the fees, turned up and sat the exams. Lots of people do it, it's hardly special. Don't be such a cynical bastard. these are mostly young people, it's the most important day in their