Thread Necromancy...
Junior the Elder finished his Medical degree a couple of years ago, and has recently finished his 2 years of apprenticeship, called Foundation Years FY1/FY2.
This co-incides with Junior the Younger graduating from his Theoretical Physics degree, so they have both taken a break and gone together on a 3 month climbing trip to Canada and the US, which involved some Big Wall stuff in Yosemite. They are due back in the next week.
The Younger graduated back in summer, but due to strike action by staff at Edin Uni, the papers were not marked. They were presented with blank certificates at the ceremony! The lack of actual grades has been a problem for many reasons. Applications for PhDs are stalled. For some, their immigration status has been revoked.
But last week, he finally got his result: Mphys (1).
He's looking at PhDs in areas of Quantum Field Theory, and Quantum Electrodynamics.
I'll explain that to anyone who asks. Not.