Graduation at Ely

Having passed AA312 I now have enough points/credits to claim for a degree. When I checked StudentHome I was given the choice of:

BA(Hons) Humanities
BA(Hons) Humanities with History
BA(Hons) Humanities with Media Studies
BA(Hons) Humanities with History and Media Studies
BA(Hons) Open

DD100 An Introduction to the Social Sciences: Understanding Social Change	A103 An Introduction to the Humanities
DA204 Understanding Media	MA290 Topics in the History of Mathematics	A297 Reading Classical Latin
AA310 Film and Television History	AA312 Total War and Social Change: Europe 1914-1955

The modules I chose are listed above, so this gave me a list of degree titles to chose from. I had to choose one, so I plumped for 'Humanities with History' because it sounds a bit more impressive than the others, but it's a matter of opinion I suppose. Within minutes I got an email confirming my choice and was told that the degree would be conferred on 31 December.

When I woke up on 1st January I didn't feel any different, but there you go.

I thought about degree ceremonies and while they are not really my thing I decided in the end that I would like to do it anyway. After all, its a once in a lifetime event and even if I get really nervous and feel sick at least I know I will never have to do it again. I had the choice of the Barbican in London, the Dome in Brighton or Ely Cathedral as a venue. There were others, but all too far away from where I live.

Wild horses wouldn't be able to drag me to the Barbican so it was really between the other two. I discussed it with Carolyn and we finally settled on Ely. It's about 2 hours by bus-train-tube-train-walk from Bromley which she seemed OK with.

So, on Saturday 4th June I'll be putting a funny gown on and trying to keep my packed lunch down in Cambridgeshire.