I just realised that there's probably an entire generation of first year undergraduates out there who think that they're the class of 2010, not the class of 2007.
"No, in the UK, your year is the year that you start, not the year that you finish."
er ... are you sure? At both my seats of learning we'd considered such things on the basis of when you concluded the course and passed all the exams (which may or may not be the same year as the Graduation ceremony, of course)
OTOH, in the case of the first establishment (Imperial) I arrived in 1974 but left at the end of my second year in 1976, and was part of the Class of 1977 when I wasn't actually there! It is all complicated ... (at least the end-year convention doesn't make me sounds quite so old ... ish
You almost certainly are...:-) Cambridge and Oxford doing things differently would be, well, normal.
The norm here is that if you were, say, MIT '82, it would say you graduated from the Institute in 1982, so you probably matriculated in 1978, though MIT has many, many students on atypical schedules. Atypical, that is, compared to the vast majority of colleges and universities in the US -- indeed, people talk about "the typical four-year university."
When you're a freshman in 1982, you could think of it as "Class of 1986 (presumptive)."
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Date: 2008-04-26 08:14 pm (UTC)er ... are you sure? At both my seats of learning we'd considered such things on the basis of when you concluded the course and passed all the exams (which may or may not be the same year as the Graduation ceremony, of course)
OTOH, in the case of the first establishment (Imperial) I arrived in 1974 but left at the end of my second year in 1976, and was part of the Class of 1977 when I wasn't actually there! It is all complicated ... (at least the end-year convention doesn't make me sounds quite so old ... ish
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Date: 2008-04-26 08:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-26 09:18 pm (UTC)The norm here is that if you were, say, MIT '82, it would say you graduated from the Institute in 1982, so you probably matriculated in 1978, though MIT has many, many students on atypical schedules. Atypical, that is, compared to the vast majority of colleges and universities in the US -- indeed, people talk about "the typical four-year university."
When you're a freshman in 1982, you could think of it as "Class of 1986 (presumptive)."