Cat graduates from UT Austin

a year ago by ickplant to c/cat

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.

plantmoretrees 68 points a year ago

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

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CaptnNMorgan 4 points a year ago

I support this

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LillyPip 2 points a year ago

Grim, but relatable.

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some_guy 1 point a year ago

Whoops, wrong spot for reply.

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Randomocity 49 points a year ago

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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qarbone 13 points a year ago

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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LifeInMultipleChoice 5 points a year ago

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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qarbone 6 points a year ago

Cat's overqualified for that position.

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Kazumara 8 points a year ago

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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Uli 6 points a year ago

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

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CatsGoMOW 4 points a year ago

Maybe an Associate degree?

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IamSparticles 4 points a year ago

How did that cat even get through admissions?! I smell a bribery scandal.

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ouRKaoS 36 points a year ago

Gets college degree, remains an unemployed leech.

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mexicancartel 4 points a year ago

Unemployed by choice I guess

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celeste 22 points a year ago

That cat refused to wear that cap lol

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MissJinx 21 points a year ago

oh that's where all the braincells went

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xorollo 20 points a year ago

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ReiRose 6 points a year ago

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Lexam 13 points a year ago

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

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Chozo 17 points a year ago

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

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Viking_Hippie 17 points a year ago

Her inbox is also her outbox, though

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Rhynoplaz 13 points a year ago

We had a black lab graduate yesterday!

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Iheartcheese 19 points a year ago

Why you got to bring race into it

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JuxtaposedJaguar 6 points a year ago

Another DEI graduate 🙄

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LovableSidekick 12 points a year ago

Plot twist: the cat did most of the actual work.

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SocialMediaRefugee 2 points a year ago

It was all in ventinary science and mouse psychology

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chelatna 10 points a year ago

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ZILtoid1991 9 points a year ago

Unreal Tournament Austin?

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lagoon8622 8 points a year ago

"University" of "Texas" (derogatory)

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LovableSidekick 2 points a year ago

Doctor of Divinity degree

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 8 points a year ago

Wait, can you graduate from uni just by turning up? No exams?

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Jankatarch 6 points a year ago

Cats have pretty privilege in levels humanity can't reach.

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selokichtli 7 points a year ago

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

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InverseParallax 3 points a year ago

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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LovableSidekick 1 point a year ago

I don't get that either - is it a blond thing?

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selokichtli 1 point a year ago

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

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some_guy 7 points a year ago

I support this.

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Etterra 7 points a year ago

Aw what an adorable way to get easy publicity.

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superduperpirate 6 points a year ago

Suki will be the least annoying UT Austin grad ever

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laserm 5 points a year ago

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

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prettybunnys 5 points a year ago

Better temperament than me by far I’d wager

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Sculptor9157 3 points a year ago

That erudite-looking sonofabitch!

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blimthepixie 3 points a year ago

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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Pnut 1 point a year ago

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

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SocialMediaRefugee 1 point a year ago

Wait until his student loans come due

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