Dai Cooper, UBC, May, 2009.

At my graduation from the University of British Columbia, I had the honor of being nominated and chosen as student speaker, to announce the grad class gifts. It was really a lot of fun to write and deliver the speech, which was of course all about the meaning of life as metaphorized by Star Wars.

I received a first-class Bachelors degree with a double major in Anthropology and World Religious Studies.

There are Spanish subtitles available, which you can also turn off if you like :)

Dai Ruth Donetta Cooper speaking at Congregation for the conferring of degrees, University of British Columbia, May 20, 2009. From Third Tribe Productions Inc., www.graduationvideos.ca

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[Mangzut]

Wow miss Cooper, you really have written it well!!!! It was fun listening to it,although I didn't understand half of your terms,,,,,it must have been an honour!!!!!!nice

[Daionisio]

@Mangzut Thank you!! It really was fun. I'm super glad you enjoyed it! :D

[yaylizz]

Congratulations :)

[Daionisio]

@yaylizz Thank you! :)

[nvincenti]

anthropology degree?

[Daionisio]

That's right - it comes in degrees now ;)

[Nornin]

That was so cool :)

I really liked all the Star Wars metarphors since I'm a bit of a geek.

When I was choosing my degree it was anthropology or library and information science and today I proudly call myself a librarian :)

The world truly needs anthropologists like you!

Greetings from Iceland.

[RUNDnL]

WOW what an amazing speech, i really enjoyed it, you sounds like such a great person!

[Pauliusization]

nice speech and congrats from Lithuanian anthropologist ;) by the way, your song about anthropologist was so spot on.;]

[Daionisio]

This video was posted twice; I deleted the duplicate version but wanted to preserve the comments left on it. Here they are :)

NegativeNick (6 months ago)

wow, congrats!

engelshaar77 (2 months ago)

Hey, wow, congrats from me, too Donetta!