Dr Fivemack, I presume
Dec. 11th, 2003 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackThis afternoon, at about 4pm, wearing reddish-purple robes trimmed with turquoise and a hood of the same material, I had my name announced by Professor Buttery, Dean of the Faculty of Science; walked, in front of an audience (nay, a Congregation) of perhaps two thousand, across a stage tiered three-deep with gowned academics; gave a shallow bow to Professor Fujia Yang (Chancellor), because I didn't think I could quite pull off a deep theatrical one; and received a bit of paper certifying me as a Doctor of Philosophy. My parents were very proud.
This concludes my twenty-year stint in full-time education.
This concludes my twenty-year stint in full-time education.
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Date: 2003-12-11 01:23 pm (UTC)Modern universities, I don't know.
Well done Dr. Tom!
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Date: 2003-12-11 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-11 01:48 pm (UTC)(btw, we also presume you found the Forbidden Planet open on Sunday?)
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Date: 2003-12-11 01:58 pm (UTC)The Sundering is Walter Jon Williams' sequel to The Praxis, and I read it on the train today. The Praxis I thought was very good, as a space opera written with O'Brien-style pacing; this one doesn't seem to have got the pacing quite right, it head-hops slightly distractingly, and it repeats itself &em; many events from the previous novel are explained more than once.
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Date: 2004-09-25 09:00 pm (UTC)Glad you enjoyed the book, though.
Yours,
S.M. Stirling
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Date: 2003-12-11 03:29 pm (UTC)MC
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Ground control to Doctor Tom...
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Date: 2003-12-11 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-12 02:50 am (UTC)I have my own pride: I've beaten John Cernes by almost a year---submission next week, after 22 terms.
Henry Braun
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Date: 2003-12-12 03:31 am (UTC)Glad to see it's worked out for you in the end!
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