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Cat graduates from UT Austin

An orange tabby cat named Suki became the first honorary feline graduate of The University of Texas at Austin. According to FOX 7, UT student Francesca Bourdier spent most of her college career at home like any other college student, on Zoom with her cat by her side.

Bourduer said Suki attended every class she had online so she knew she had to include the one-and-a-half-year-old cat when graduation came around.

Through a quick search online, Bourdier was even able to buy Suki her own cap and gown.

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lemm.ee

Imagine being 40 and still paying off your dead cats student loans

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sh.itjust.works

Was this an expedited degree? The cat is only a year and a half old. I think this might be fraud.

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lemmy.world

It only attended lectures, but did no tests or quizzes? Even if it negotiated pass/fail grades on attendance and not exams, the degree should probably have stipulations requiring some number of credits be from letter grades.

At best, this cat was auditing classes. I do not believe it earned this degree and I would not hire it in the field based on it.

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lemmy.world

I find these statements discriminatory and have decided it's best we make sure they vote this cat to be Governor of Texas.

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Kazumarareply
discuss.tchncs.de

It seems the owner is selling fashion on Instagram and training to be a Pilates teacher. Maybe the degree wasn't that expansive.

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A cat teaching Pilates? I thought it was an MBA or something, but this no longer sounds believable.

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lemmy.world

OMG I hate these fake headlines. The cat can't graduate. She only audited the classes.

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Chozoreply
fedia.io

No, it's true! The cat's already got recruiters putting job offers in her inbox.

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lemmy.ml

I'm unable to get the jokes about orange cats and low braincell count. My orange cat is a genius.

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I've met both, but they often tend to towards the idiot side of the spectrum.

Have a Russian blue who probably has a novel solution to fermats last theorem though.

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I don't think so. Probably a trend that started from some biased material that went viral.

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lemmy.world

Imagine applying for a job and having a cat get the job instead of you

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Funny if the cat was called Desmond.

Not sure if it's the same across the pond but in the UK a 'Desmond' is the score 2.2

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'graduates' is how they wrote it. I hope they honoured a bunch of students for their actual accomplishments.

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