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Attention Graduands

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  • 13-11-2007 8:57pm
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    FionnMatthew
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭


    Attention Graduands

    For anyone granted the dubious pleasure of contemplating the reception of a degree in academic study from the crowd of charlatans that is corporate UCD, I have a conciliatory message.

    Many of you will already be acquainted with the following passage, from the letter concerning 'Conferral of Degrees' :
    Your degree is written in "Latin". If you require an English Translation please contact the National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (telephone: 439 2424) or www.nui.ie/qualifications/xservices.asp. The charge for this service is €50.

    The upshot being that they're charging you fifty euro for "translating" the stock inscription on your degree parchment. Which they could just have given you printed on the letter, with an "[insert name here]" field.

    My contribution is this: For any non-Latinists too conscientious not to discover what it means, but too lazy or otherwise indisposed to pick up a Latin dictionary and muddle through, I am (wink) willing to provide a service at a competetive rate!

    My Latin is patchy, but I'm sure I could manage a generic parchment inscription. I'll do it for €45. (Ever so reasonable!) Just message me on here, and I'll get right down to it.

    ________________________________________________________
    "UCD Horizons... How deep do you want us to take you, unawares?"


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    FionnMatthew
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭FionnMatthew


    PS:

    I fully expect to see this passage on next year's 'conferral information' letters:
    Your degree is written in an ideolectic cypher of Chapacura-Wanham and Proto-Indo-European. It contains important information which you ought not to do without. If you require an English Translation please contact the National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 (telephone: 439 2424) or www.nui.ie/qualifications/xservices.asp. The charge for this service is €50.


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    Assets Model
    Registered Users Posts: 308 ✭✭Assets Model


    Well trinity students are charged to graduate at least the hugh brady Institute hasn't started that yet.


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    FionnMatthew
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭FionnMatthew


    :(
    Conferral Letter wrote:
    Academic Robes
    Graduands must attend in the prescribed Gowns and Hoods. The Official Robe-Makers to the University, Phelan Conan Associates, will be in attendance in the Student Centre, University College Dublin...

    ...Cost of hiring robes: €40 per graduand (incl. VAT @ 21%).


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    arbeitsscheuer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    FionnMatthew wrote: »
    :(
    Really?!

    Wow. I don't remember having to pay for the gown rental last year, that sucks serious ass. Although maybe we did have to but I just don't remember... Seems like that could be equally likely.

    Yeah, this university's awesome. Why did we come back to do an MA again, Fionn?:(


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