Last week, my friend graduated from a local college of the arts. They have a bunch of different schools within the college, just like any major university—graphic design, video game design, sculpture, etc.
If I were to pick my major in that college based purely on the graduation ceremony, I would go with the culinary arts.
Obviously, there are some other factors. I love food and cooking to start. Not to mention, dates are a lot cheaper if you can cook well.
Aside from those outside factors, though, the big wigs in the culinary education department know how to graduate with class. While everybody else wears the standard graduation robes, those who successfully completed their culinary training marched up to that stage in their full chef garb, including hats and knives in their belts.
And the top graduates didn’t just wear an extra tassel or sash. They got different color graduation uniforms, different designs on their hats and the top graduate got a set of knives with his diploma.
At my graduation, the only honor that came with being a top graduate was a declaration of the fact by one of the professors—not even the dean—and the privilege of addressing a large crowd of people, most likely made up largely of people who do not actually respect your accomplishment and/or are more concerned with getting out of the auditorium to celebrate with their friends and family than hearing about your odyssey. Some cool knives might make that a little more worthwhile.
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