!!! I AM NOW DR. TOWNSHIP75 !!!

[Township75]

I passed my defense on Wednesday!!!!!!!!!
:party::toast:
:party::bounce:

Now I just need to make corrections to my dissertation!

This is also my first all-CAPS subject line!


:beer:

Maybe now I can spend more time on DU like I once did.

:yourock:,:party:, :)

[TheMightyFavog]

1. Mazel Tov!

Congrats!

[LynneSin]

2. If you're a doctor, then can you help explain this strange rash on my butt

Congratulations!!!

:bounce:

[Blue-Jay]

5. It's from scooting on the carpet.

:)

[LynneSin]

11. Are you a doctor? I don't think so now go away

:bounce:

[Blue-Jay]

17. You're not the boss of me.

<nyah> :P

[LynneSin]

19. You're not my doctor, township75 is so let him do his job

so nyah :P

[GOPisEvil]

3. Congratulations Doctor!

:toast:

[underpants]

4. What's up DOC?

Congrats

[Township75]

12. Thanks!

!

[bif]

6. Kudos to ya!

[Township75]

8. Thanks!

!

[Township75]

9. Thanks!

!

[MallRat]

7. Congratulations! In what field? n/t

edited punctuation...

[ewagner]

10. Congratulations Dr Twownship75

Well-done.

:toast: :beer:

[Township75]

13. Thanks to you and everyone else who posted previously...

I didn't think there would be this many responses so fast.

Anyway, glad you all popped by

[TXlib]

14. Congrats! What field are you in?

[Township75]

16. In

Chemical Engineering

[MallRat]

20. Excellent! I got mine in chemistry.

Though my specific field of expertise is really better defined as analytical biochemistry.

Have a beer! You deserve it!

:toast:

[Township75]

21. COOL!

my specific field is polymers! More on the characterization and structure-property relations than the chemistry side.

[MallRat]

22. What kind of polymers?

I'm mostly involved in protein analysis and natural product isolation and characterization: HPLC, CE, mass spec.

-MR

[Township75]

23. Mostly "high performance" polymers

like polyimides and polymer-inorganic composites. Most of my characterization came from FTIR,NMR, DMA, and SEM. I used some other stuff to.

I will be switching the focus of my research to some different polymers for the next year or two.

[St. Jarvitude]

40. I'm interested in a similar field

Something biochemistry-related - the chemical processes involved in life have been interesting to me since the fourth grade.

Where did you go for undergrad and grad? I'm interested in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (or maybe University of Chicago) for undergrad and grad, especially because Urbana-Champaign has an excellent engineering school and it would be easier to fall back onto some sort of chemical engineering (my other personal choice) field that way.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Heaps of Congrats!

The Professor

[Township75]

18. Thanks Prof. GAC

what area are you in?

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Assuming You Mean Academically. . .

. . .i have three masters degrees. Never had the patience to go to Ph.D. in any of them. Always wanted to move onto the next thing. But, i have taught classes in all three of my fields.

My first is in Quantum Chemistry. Second is it Statistical Mechanics. Third is in Economics.

The Professor

[mike_c]

24. Congratulations!

:toast:

[flamingyouth]

25. Congratulations!

Wow, what a milestone indeed! This occasion certainly calls for all caps!!!:bounce:

[Township75]

26. Thanks FY, and MC

!

[PittPoliSci]

27. CONGRATS!

I too posted with an all caps subject line. WAY TO GO!!! KICK ASS! YOU ROCK!!!

[Township75]

30. I too

went to Pitt! For my undergrad! Great Place

[newyawker99]

28. Congrats Township75!!

:toast: :party:

[Township75]

32. Thanks

thanks

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!

[Township75]

31. WHOA! That reply is HUUUUUUUUGE!

:)

[Township75]

34. KICK

!

[tigereye]

36. congratulations on your doctorate and PHD- ness!

now people can bother you on planes.

[mrboba1]

35. WOOHOOO!!!!!

I never got that far - so I know how much more it took than I wanted to give!
Congrats!!!
:party: :toast: :bounce:

[Township75]

44. THanks

!

[EstimatedProphet]

37. Congrats, and welcome to the Fud Club!

Feels good, doesn't it? Like letting go of a load of bricks on your shoulders...

[Township75]

43. thanks

!

[VOX]

38. Good going, Doc!!!!

Your new sheepskin doesn't read "your name here," does it? :)

Best to you for sticking to it!! :toast:

[Township75]

42. No...

but that isn't such a bad idea :)

Thanks for the congrats

[RoadRunner]

39. Good show, Doctor!

:toast:

[Township75]

41. Thanks!

[Burma Jones]

45. I defend in August...........

Well Done.

[Township75]

46. Good Luck..

what's your field?

[Lisa]

47. Congratulations!

I hope they didn't want extensive corrections. But, most important -- you're DONE! Eventually the trauma of the defense will recede into the background ... I remember finally staggering out into the hall after the committee passed me, to be greeted by ... nobody. (It was the beginning of the holidays, and all the other grads were running to the airport to catch their flights out of here!)

Hope your post-defense celebration was more riotous than mine (solo dinner at a local greasy spoon ... then came home to find that my landlady's cat had barfed on my living room carpet). Better the cat than me, I guess ...


p.s. you will feel REALLY GOOD when you submit your final copies to Grad Studies.

[Parrcrow]

48. Congratulations Dr Township75

First round in the faculty lounge is on you
:toast:
all the rest of the rounds are too
:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[marigold20]

49. Congrats - you are superior to Dr. Science now

He has a Master's Degree - in Science!!

My son will defend next year in Physics so I have some idea of what you've been through, Dr. Township!

[Township75]

50. Thanks to you and the two before you!

!