Boris Liberman wrote:
Congratulations, Mark! Getting a degree is always great achievement and a milestone. This year it's going to be 10 years since I got mine. I still think that those years that I spent studying were absolutely the best of my life... Consider it a friendly warning ;-).
"Schooldays are the happiest days of your life" is an English truism that makes no sense whatsoever until you leave school. Not that it's necessarily true... :-)
S

