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SO I am officially (well as long as Dr. Ramsey's ballot has been mailed back from the UC Davis Vet School!) a PhD Candidate!!!!!!! Yay!!!!! Huge huge deal in grad school.
The exam was a bitch-4 8-9 hour written exams (2-5 questions) followed by a 3 hour oral exam. Actually, it was a lot better than I thought it would be. I was terrified, but the test made me realize that I know a lot and I understand science. My committee even commented that it was very clear I knew my areas of study (well, except for the stats stuff!).
So YAY! Now I just finish my research, write it all up and move somewhere new next winter. I'll be a doctor in 10 months! Yay! Im not sure where I will wind up, but Im open to anywhere right now. I would like to make it back east eventually, but if I got an offer someplace fun I don't know that I could turn it down.
I emailed my grandma, (who is 93 pretty cool she emails at that age) and she is beyond excited about it. I will be the first doctor in my entire family and to be a girl, make it even more special. Shes been asking my parents about graduation already too because she wants come out. She told me when I graduated college that she didn't think she would live to see me finish, and so to see my finish my MS then my doctorate, is pretty cool.
OK off to walk my mutt!
The exam was a bitch-4 8-9 hour written exams (2-5 questions) followed by a 3 hour oral exam. Actually, it was a lot better than I thought it would be. I was terrified, but the test made me realize that I know a lot and I understand science. My committee even commented that it was very clear I knew my areas of study (well, except for the stats stuff!).
So YAY! Now I just finish my research, write it all up and move somewhere new next winter. I'll be a doctor in 10 months! Yay! Im not sure where I will wind up, but Im open to anywhere right now. I would like to make it back east eventually, but if I got an offer someplace fun I don't know that I could turn it down.
I emailed my grandma, (who is 93 pretty cool she emails at that age) and she is beyond excited about it. I will be the first doctor in my entire family and to be a girl, make it even more special. Shes been asking my parents about graduation already too because she wants come out. She told me when I graduated college that she didn't think she would live to see me finish, and so to see my finish my MS then my doctorate, is pretty cool.
OK off to walk my mutt!