It's official!
Guess what came in the mail today?
MY DIPLOMA!
It was actually a surprise because about two days after I got the email from my prof saying that I was technically finished, I got a letter from the registrar saying "we got your app for graduation, but we don't have any record of you: finishing your paper, completing your oral comps, or filing for an extension for the 6 credits you technically took too long ago to count toward this degree." Um, eek?! My prof assured me that I just had to wait for the paperwork to catch up to the registrar's office, but... Considering he had no recollection of the email he'd sent saying he would file the (missing) extension LAST SUMMER, I was a bit worried. But!
What's extra exciting about that is the fact that I never actually did the part where I defend the paper, aka Oral Comps. But Dr. Advisor signed off on everything, which must mean that he counted one of our little talks about edits as the defense. This is me really not complaining.
Apart from some other run-of-the-mill annoying crap, this week has actually been pretty darn good. Huh, it's been a while since I've felt generally happy like this... Again, not complaining (although I am waiting for the inevitable backlash).
Whee!!! I'm officially DONE! And all in time to make a lane change on the salary schedule for THIS year!
MY DIPLOMA!
It was actually a surprise because about two days after I got the email from my prof saying that I was technically finished, I got a letter from the registrar saying "we got your app for graduation, but we don't have any record of you: finishing your paper, completing your oral comps, or filing for an extension for the 6 credits you technically took too long ago to count toward this degree." Um, eek?! My prof assured me that I just had to wait for the paperwork to catch up to the registrar's office, but... Considering he had no recollection of the email he'd sent saying he would file the (missing) extension LAST SUMMER, I was a bit worried. But!
What's extra exciting about that is the fact that I never actually did the part where I defend the paper, aka Oral Comps. But Dr. Advisor signed off on everything, which must mean that he counted one of our little talks about edits as the defense. This is me really not complaining.
Apart from some other run-of-the-mill annoying crap, this week has actually been pretty darn good. Huh, it's been a while since I've felt generally happy like this... Again, not complaining (although I am waiting for the inevitable backlash).
Whee!!! I'm officially DONE! And all in time to make a lane change on the salary schedule for THIS year!