Originally Posted by Mikeuk

Well done. Pity it's cloudy over Portsmouth this morning.

Portsmouth Guildhall is a splendid venue for this type of ceremony. Sadly the original interior was totally destroyed in the blitz but it's still the finest municipal building anywhere in the south of England.

I hope you had a chance to visit some of our sights.

Originally Posted by The Bear

A very genuine congratulations from me.

I’ve often heard that earning a degree from the OU is actually harder than from a conventional university owing to the discipline needed in fitting in the work and study with everyday life.

In my experience when I was studying for my MSc as a mature student I certainly found this to be so, and that was with the added motivation of being part of the student body of a conventional university at the time albeit as an “external” student.

Well done. You really can and should be proud of your achievement.

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."