Doctored!

[liv]

So I have received a letter to the following effect:

Dear Dr [livredor]

I am very pleased to let you know that the Senatus Academicus has considered the report of the Examining Committee on your Thesis and decided to grand you the degree of PhD.

Yours sincerely &c

I'm going to Dundee to graduate at the beginning of next week. The ceremony is very much along the same lines as the faux-mediaevalism of the notification letter, complete with entirely anachronistic Latin, but hey, it should be fun. Getting there is going to be interesting, I suspect; I have booked train journeys that avoid London, but it might be awkward all the same.

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Less dramatically, have book reviews of:
-David Baddiel: The secret purposes
-Joanna Trollope: A passionate man

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

*hug* well done, dear.

[liv]

*bounce* Thank you! This bit is only getting through the bureaucracy, but it's still nice to have it official.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS!

& :-)

[liv]

Ee! Thank you. And I do like the icon, very swish.

[rozallin.livejournal.com]

Congratulations Dr. livredor! :)

[liv]

Thank you! The weird thing is that getting a doctorate means I've really run out of things to study. I could of course start again with a different subject, but I still feel somehow that I've reached the end of education, which is a strange thought. But of course the whole thing about being a research scientist is that you do go on learning even when you're not formally being educated or trained.

Re: Doctored!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yay, officially bureaucrated dr livredor!

[liv]

I like that way of expressing it, a bureaucrated doctor, oh yes. And thanks for celebrating with me.

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

[liv]

I like that little image, it really does look like a Post-it™ stuck on my screen! Thank you.

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

:) stickies

[leora.livejournal.com]

Congrats. :)

If I sent out letters like that, I'd be tempted to just say:

Dear Dr. So-and-so,

Sincerely,
Whomever

since the address really sums it up. :)

[liv]

That would be a whole lot more stylish than silly fake Latin nonsense. But I'm hardly surprised that you're more imaginative than the university admin people.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

yay, livredoc!

[liv]

Livredoc, that's cute. *hug*

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Congratulations (again :o) )!

[liv]

Yeah, I know. Someone at shul was saying to me that it's hard to discern the exact moment for celebration; is it when you submit, or when you finish the viva, or when the corrections are finished, or when you get an official acceptance from the university, or the actual graduation ceremony... Luckily in my case the whole lot is only spread over 2 months, but it's still not exactly a sharp transition.

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Have a lovely graduation.