Friends make everything better.
That includes late nights studying for medical school exams.
University of Otago students Emma Amitrano, Lauryn Soti and Blake Kennedy, all graduated with degrees in medicine on Saturday.
They said they could not have done it without each other.
"It definitely made things so much easier, having these guys," Mr Kennedy said.
"Honestly, I don’t know where I’d be without these two."
They all met during their studies and became close friends in the past two years all choosing to stay at the Dunedin campus.
Miss Soti said it felt "surreal" to be graduating after six years of hard work.
She was emotional because after all their years together the trio were going down separate paths.
However, she was happy to have her family at her graduation, all the way from Samoa.
Another medicine graduate Laura Sunderland, of Melbourne, had her proud parents Tom and Sarah visiting from Australia.
Dr Sunderland said his family had a connection to Dunedin as he had roots in Edinburgh, Scotland.
It felt special to see his daughter march down George St led by the pipe band.
She was the second doctor in their family after him.
In a ceremony at the Dunedin Town Hall at 4pm on Saturday, 376 people graduated in person from the university with qualifications in medicine, science, health, philosophy and pharmacy. Thirty-six others graduated in absentia.
It was the second of two ceremonies on Saturday. At 1pm, 347 people graduated in person with qualifications in subjects including medicine, health, dentistry, physiotherapy and pharmacy. Another 55 graduated in absentia.
