Clara was pleased that she was able to switch the topic. She didn't like her master thinking he wasn't good enough to be happy. He was, with or without the system, he was good enough. And with how much he traveled, Clara could have easily run into him if he hadn't rescued her that day.
Clara nearly choked on her bite of food when The Doctor brought up her degree. She swallowed before answering. "Um.. I earned two bachelors degrees before my name was pulled. I was to walk the stage the day after my name was picked. The, um.." Clara didn't want to say the last bit but she knew she couldn't hide anything from him. "The university didn't want to give me my degrees because my name got pulled," she confessed solemnly. Her fork fiddled on her plate. There had been a time where Clara was so angry at the system because of happened to her. But she lost that anger over time as she's been with The Doctor and Willow. She still wasn't a fan of it, but she was happier now than she was before.