After about 9 months the MPhil at Cambridge came to an end. A very formal and traditional end I might say.
Cambridge has a very old tradition to award the degrees. It dates from the early days of the University probably. We were dressed up in gowns and hoods (see some photos on Facebook), each one wearing the colours of the degree to be conferred. Each college has an allocated time in the ceremony, when all the students about to graduate enter the Senate House (a large building in the city center). From there some of the officials say Latin phrases after which we have a kind of blessing.
Once the formal part is over each college makes a party for its graduands. We were received with a great banquet, which they called High Tea.
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