Graduating from the University of Oxford 

It has been three years, why on Earth am I still crying out of sheer proudness for this brilliant, brilliant guy?

This dude needs his own TED talk. Like seriously. He would be a great public speaker. I'm an American college student but this is so interesting to learn about.

His comments at 8:28-9:00 are spot on. Not only for studying but everything we do. It's the work that matters, above all

you really know the art of perfect narration. I can rarely listen to people with such interest and enthusiasm as I do in your case,always.👍 good luck 😁

Congratulations! I'm only 3 years too late.. Where are you now, and what are you doing?

Absolutely LOVED this video, Simon! So much fun, and you, as ever, are wonderful. Congratulations on your degree and you have my highest admiration for working so hard. You're an inspiration (so corny, so true). Keep being successful and keep up the vids! Lou xx

"I never studied latin, because I went to a normal school" urmm lmaoo

It's been a great journey watching all of your vlogs for the past year and a half, Simon. You've helped me learn about what university is like and what it is about, providing great insight for me along the way. Good luck at Exeter!

Simon I have to thank you man your videos are quality. I have managed to get an interview at Cambridge University and watch you videos gave me the courage to apply. Thanks again!!!

Thank you for this informative and charmingly presented video. American schools have none of these traditions, aside from wearing gowns at Commencement. Having daydreamed often about the Oxford experience, I appreciate the insight, Simon. This was very enjoyable. Congratulations on your accomplishments and you are truly in great company. I wish you every success.

Great video. Inspiring, to say the least. Congratulations!! Wishes of extreme success to you and with all of your endeavors.

Congratulations... really your videos are a huge motivation for me...so thank you Simon.

you're right... at the end of the day the thing that is important is what you have learned and not the degree itself. Sometimes I stop myself for thinking "I need to learn in order to pass that exam", the real fact and what I need to think is "I need to learn for MYSELF". The grade that I will receive is not so important, it's important to have done mine the books that I studied. But sometimes I found that so hard to think and I'm too stressed out. I hope I haven't done too many mistakes >.< Greetings from Italy :D

Congratulations and thanks for the report on the ceremony.

Congratulations and all the best in the future!

This made me smile. Thanks for sharing Simon!

Omg, Simon has the prettiest eyes!!!

literally Hogwarts

Congratulations Simon: you deserve it so much. You have inspired me so much when it comes to your Oxvlogs and I'm so happy you have achieved so much. Well done c:

Loved that bit at the end, congratulations and all :D

Thanks Simon for this amazing video. Im sure that this video will help me nexr year when im going to an university!!

Thanks Simon! i really love your videos you always inspire me in one way or the other do you know that before you could talk about the "piece of paper" i was exactly saying the same thing to myself i think that at the end of the day the only thing that really matters is what you've learnt the new knowledge which you gained over those years not a piece of paper like you said i totally agree thanks again that was deep :) hope the best

I love your videos, you are an inspiration. A very smart, cute, funny and very charming young man. Keep on good work! :)

Thanks for share your experiences as an student in one of the best universities in the world your comments help to inspire people to take challenges seriously whatever we are doing in this life we always must to do the best to get best of it.

that must be an amazing experience! can't wait to hear about your experience in exeter!! : ))

Congratulations Simon! And I approve of your Doctor Who references :)

Congrats!!!! I know how hard it is.

I'm glad to see that your certificate actually certifies that you passed. Mine only says "It appears from the registers of the University of Oxford ..." and it also puts satisfying the residence requirements ahead of satisfying the examiners! mine does look a bit posher than yours though - but not a swish as my grade VIII clarinet certificate or cycling proficiency test. My rule of thumb is: the more significant the qualification, the less imposing the certificate!

what you said at the end about going to university for the sake of knowledge, not the accolade of being acknowledged for your implied work which has led to the end result of a 'degree' was very well put!

Congratulations. You must be immensely proud.

I felt up-to now that this video looks superb

Congratulations Simon well deserved:)

Keep up the great job! :) inspiring video.

Love the end there. Brilliantly said.

love the casual Harry potter trivia :) !

Your quote at the end lives by me everyday, mate!

congratulations simon! x

Even I didn't graduate from Oxford and didn't plan to study there but still I like watch your tube.... Congratulations Krub your Fanclub fromThailand.

Congrats Simon!

Thanks Simon I was inspired to make a video of my graduation after seeing this.

Congrats from the U.S., mate. Great video.

its so true what you said at the end

Deffo agree - the 'piece of paper' certificate of graduation is rather empty - it's all the hard work one has to do for EARN that piece of paper, not to mention everything that one has learnt over four years...I feel I can identify with your emotions on graduating - such a relief eh? Best of luck with your Ph.D. studies... for me these are FAR too stressful to continue studying!

I don't know why but he really does motivate me to continue studying :)

I subscribed the moment you said Time Lord. :3

Congratulations, Simon! "Second Class, Division Two" I can only assume means a lower second. I imagined they'd have made more of an effort to make the degree look less like it was created in Microsoft Word. I'm hoping to study Physics at Oxford too, but I'll go as a mature student, because I was more focused on working after studies. Hopefully they don't look as strictly on GCSEs for mature students.

awesome I really like the way your talking its full of sense how long does it take to earn your phd?

You make me want to do my degrees all over again, although I'm just finishing a masters :)

Cheeky myprotein in the corner :p

I like the philosophical ending. You need more of that not less =)

Well said Simon!

but you speech was so beautiful!

Fun, from a student I respect.

awsome simon i want to go to oxford so bad but im in 5th grade so 7 years more

It's the journey that counts, not the destination when it comes to the end result (the degree?)

OMG I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE A DOCTOR WHO FAN CAUSE I DISCOVERED YOU A FEW MONTHS AGO! XD

well done simon :)

Congratulations Simon! Im in lower sixth, and want to study music at uni- i would love to go to oxford or cambridge but im not sure which one is best (to study music, that is) ^-^

how do you choose weather to do a 3 year bachelors then 1 year masters or to just do a 4 year masters

Why didn't you do your PhD in Oxford? Do you have to apply again like it's a separate course or?

a quick question Simon, have you ever thought of working in finance after graduating or after doing a phd? or do you want to be an academic lecture

congrats!

So what job are you thinking of striving for now? You have a masters in physics what jobs are there around that?

Is that some protein in the background?

I found your channel and this video along with another one about half an hour ago... I just had to say that your way of speech reminds me alot of, perhaps you've heard of the character and the show, Robert Chase from House MD. In a good way, of course. Congratulations on achieving your masters degree in Physics, I myself am also currently in the process of getting a masters degree in Physics. If you don't mind me asking, what are your future plans? research?

Awesome!

is that some protein powder in the back?

...and The Doors play: "This is the end..my only friend,the end..it hurts to set you free.." Well done Simon!!

well done mate

Ive always wanted to study physics in institutions as prestigious as the University of Oxford, i just can't afford all the expenses for foreign students.

Is really hard to get in Oxford university I from America I'm only 14 what test do we need take

Its 2018. In India we have to do 3 years of bachelors degree than 2 years more to get masters. Total 5 years. I am in 2nd years of my bachelors.

This is very similar to my grad ceremony at university of aberdeen

I couldn't be more jealous of your grey eyes.

Did you ever have moments during Oxford when you wanted to give on physics and persue something different??

How did you get both a masters and a bachelors degree from Oxford?

well im like 3 years late but congrats :)

I would really appreciate more philosophical views like 07:50 - 0905 on your future vlogs. That small clip was quite inspiring.

Out of interest...why is it four years for a Master's Degree? In my country it is 3 years for an undergrad Bachelors Degree, then 1 year of post-grad study for an Honours degree, and then you study for a Masters in your 5th/6th year (depending on if it is a 1/2-year masters course)

Team Cambridge! 💪🏻😄😂 Love your channel tho!😘

Your philosophical phrase at the end wasn't wrong at all ... Actually, I have the same opinion about certificates ... They're useful to get jobs only, which I think is wrong. The certificate should be a document of more or less 5 pages with information about your working skills, learning skills, interpreting skills, perception skills, logical thinking skills and so on... It would be more useful. (Of course it is a lot of work) Btw. I'd like to study at Oxford, too. Unfortunately, it all depends on my A-Level results (it's the first point they look at), which I again think that makes no sense at all.

Do you feel nostalgic for your Oxford days now that you are pursuing graduate studies at another University? I am currently completing graduate studies at a new University, and I can't help but remember my undergraduate days with a tinge of sadness

AH, Well done! (:

I thinks I recognised Peters am I right? (Im a fresher)

did u wear a skillcape after?

What was your degree classification

Personally ceremonies like these I gladly skip, I skipped the elementary ceremony and high school. I just ask for having the grades mailed to me or given a day before and stay home and play video games. I don't need to have the grades or my knowledge validated by ceremonies, it's a social construct I can be without.

Hey Simon, I just wondered: I see you ended up with a 2:2 for your Master's Degree, which is considering your university still excellent. Though, was that sufficient to pursue on with a PhD ? What are the requirements at Oxford to pursue your Bsc with a Master's Degree/PhD? Thanks!

I like you already because of the DW reference

I'm just a little bit curious in this great university Simon and congratulation also, I've noticed that the crowds are considerably small in some videos that I've watched despite the fact that it is one of the big day of the graduating student. It is just for a particular Faculty/college only? or its already the graduation ceremony of the entire university? sorry for this question just asking since I'd like to know more about this well known University. Thank you!

well done simon!! are you thinking about doing a phd?

I took my degree in absentia (in 1979). I had no idea the ceremony was such a palaver. All that messing about going out of the side door and swapping gowns! I thought it would have been liek the matriculation ceremony where we all just stood while they pronounced some Latin over the whole room and then we filed out again anf walked back to our college in a crocodile for the official photograph.

I love how there is a myprotein bag in the background.

Stay grounded, young fella. Think about the cleaner who comes in to regularly clean your room, the carpet layer who used a knee kicker to stretch the edges of your wall to wall carpet out against each wall, the kitchen hands where you eat, and the gardeners who toil away, cutting and pruning as they do. All these people and more, if you're a hard determinist, were lead to these low paid, but essential occupations. Without them, there would not be a well-functioning university, and while some may say that they should have applied themselves, exercised their free will to do "better", it still does not change the fact that they were overwhelmingly drawn to their destinies; but destinies that are every bit deserving of equal respect given their indispensable importance. Congratulations, by the way. 👨‍🎓

well done

wait is that a 2.2?

hang on. how long did it take you to get your masters degreee?

The girl sitting in the middle chair was actually cute c:

no. Spot On Philosophical ! do u know what ? You've just started teaching in these videos ;)

please dont stop doing youtube videos please ):