This sunny Sunday morning, on the way up to Contemplation Rock in the Kilpatrick Hills I meet a group of graviportal hillwalkers struggling a little with the stepth of this route. I congratulate them on getting off the beaten track and taking the alternative route up to the top. We chat for a couple of minutes as they sweat and catch their breath. I wish them well and tell them (without trying to be condescending) they should be proud of themselves for getting this far, that anyone who comes up this way should get a degree, not from any university but from the universe herself. They chortle and I plod on, still further up, leaving behind a group of students on their way to graduation.
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