I remember hearing about the KTH graduation ceremony for the first time when I just started working in a moving company. There were two KTH students working with us over the summer. We spoke a lot about education in Sweden.

Later on, I saw pictures from the ceremony on Facebook. Man, that was beautiful. It looked like a signature landmark to me — years of studies culminated in an exceptional evening.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology holds its graduation ceremony at Stockholm City Hall — the same venue that hosts the Nobel Prize each year. Its interior gives the ceremony a formal, almost historic weight.

KTH was founded in 1827. It has been graduating engineers and architects from this city ever since.