University of Greenwich Graduations

One of the best parts of my role, is celebrating with students on their graduation day. The culmination of late nights, periods of stress and lots of hard work.

Today the University of Greenwich celebrated their graduations online, in three different ceremonies.  It was lovely to be able to watch those ceremonies remotely and clap and cheer VERY LOUDLY in the privacy of my living room.

I want to say a VERY BIG WELL DONE to everyone. It was lovely to see your smiling faces, and I look forward to that moment of reunion and celebration that's been promised.

I really enjoyed the speeches and found the whole event very meaningful ...

Rt. Hon. Lord Boateng said,

"We've never needed your skills like we need them now. We've never needed your youth, and your enthusiasm, and your passion to make a difference, than we need them now."

Steve Malkin said,

"We need this class of 2020. We need you to be the very best version of yourself that you can possibly be."

Linda Bird, Mayor of Greenwich Borough said,

"We applaud your resilience and tenacity."

And I want to add a very big

to Hamza, Nadezhda, Sourabh, Afaf, King, Lenka, Razheka, Megan, Dima, Ahmad, Basel, Mustafa, Moksha, Aiste, and anyone else whose name or picture I somehow missed.