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Friday, August 27, 2004

The Fat Lady Arrives by Post

I received my diploma in the mail yesterday. It has the words "Doctor of Philosophy, Planetary Sciences" on it. I suppose that makes it official.

Ever since the early months of the year, as my defense date began to loom, I've contemplated what I would write in this space once I was really and truly finished. In April, I thought it would be some climactic exultation. As post-defense revisions began to drag on, I fantasized about being done and imagined that I would feel something like the protagonist at the end of a horror movie, tired but immensely relieved, having slain the monster. Then, as paperwork dragged on even longer than the revisions, I began to get sick and tired of the whole affair. By the time I got word that the last "t" was crossed (over a month ago), I was so demoralized that I didn't write anything on the subject for my Blog.

I'm starting to feel better now. The frustration is fading into memory, and the fruits are becoming more tangible. Laura's diploma also arrived yesterday -- "Master of Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences" -- and I'm very proud of her. I think we can both describe our present state of mind as "boy, you mean that whole grad school thing really happened?" We had a pleasant but low-key celebration.

Posted by Matt on 8/27/2004 10:42:00 PM

Comments:

Congratulations, Dr. Matt. I'm so proud of you! :0D
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Posted Mon, 30 Aug 2004 5:59 PM MST by Christi ( - )
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Matt : 1/28/2005 8:44 PM

Congrats to both you and Laura!!! Finished at last! :)
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Posted Thu, 2 Sep 2004 1:56 PM MST by Katie ( - )
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Matt : 1/28/2005 8:45 PM