The final punctuation mark
Today I attended my own graduation ceremony (which is why there’s no Sea-Floor Sunday this week … sorry).
I defended my PhD back in December, worked on revisions and officially submitted the dissertation in January, and then started a new job utilizing said PhD in February. All those milestones were more climactic than today’s event … but it was still nice to put that final mark on this long educational journey. It was fun to have my advisor “hood” me and all that too.
Now I’m officially officially done!
UPDATE:
As promised in the comments below, here’s a photo of me and my adviser at graduation yesterday (note fancy-schmancy hood, which is more like a super-hero cape, and diploma in hand).
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Clastic Detritus 
Congratulations! Probably feels real good to have it completely and officially done.
Congratulations!
Nice blog and i have your link
Congrats! Somehow it never seems completely official without all the hoopla, no matter how boring a lot of the speeches before the diploma can be! :)
Well done Dr Brian.
Congratuf*ckinglations! :)
wow, thanks everybody!
Awesome, Dr. Romans.
Congratulations Brian.
Congratulations! Of course, this post is scandalously short of pictures of you in full, embarrassing graduation garb…
Congratulations! I agree with Chris – let’s see some photos of the officially-newly-minted PhD in one of those “Will spontaneously combust if it’s too hot out” robes!
Congratulations Brian !
(I too am looking forward to seeing those photos…)
Photos! Photos! Photos! *pound table with fists*
Well … I suppose I can’t ignore such enthusiastic requests … I’ll update this post tonight or tomorrow with some photos.
Many congratulations!
And nice photo – even though the full superheroness of the hood cannot be appreciated from that angle…
Congratulations for mastering that long and hard path!