I’ve never started a “hooray for me!” thread before now. But then I thought, “you know, six years of graduate school entitle me to one boring, self-indulgent thread on the SDMB. And even if they don’t, what the hell.”
So anyway, after six years, I just got my PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Illinois. It involved lots of research, a good amount of web surfing, some carpal tunnel, writing a 150 page thesis, and giving a talk in front of four professors who asked a lot of questions. All in all, not that bad, actually.
I will now move to California to live with my fiancee and work at a national laboratory, doing physics research. Life rules!
(And no one should call me Dr. Giraffe. Unless they want me to, um, you know, check them out. )
Congratulations, Dr. Giraffe. [sub]Hee, hee.[/sub]
I’ll do a happy dance for you. ::dance, dance, dance::
I am jealouse that you are done with college. Unless there is something else after a PhD. Then I will never be finished. I won’t think about that, or I will cry. I need to be happy for your sake. ::happy, happy, happy::
Wait…if I remember right, that defense was scheduled for 1:30. Which means that posting to the SDMB was one of your first priorities after finishing. Now that’s Doper dedication!
Anyway, congrats from over here in the astronomy building!
Dr. Giraffe! Dr. Giraffe! I’ve got this bump on my hiney…
I am so kidding.
That is the best thing anyone has said all day! Wow! You should go out tonight and drink lots or very good red wine with Italian food (see, in my world, when we celebrate, we have some food with our wine. It’s so much better this way).
I thought to myself, “Well, hell, I’ll just do a bit of surfing on that very topic and see if I can’t do my good deed for the day.”
After finding a summary of engineering research on theoretical condensed matter physics, with subjects such as [ul][li]Andreev Interferometry as a Probe of the Pseudogap State[]Electronic Liquid Crystal Phases of a Doped Mott Insulator[]Novel Coexisting Density Wave Ground States and Superconductivity in Organic Charge Transfer Solids[/ul]I decided that I’ll rather defer to the person with the degree in this very subject.[/li][sub]I want my Plutarch. He never talked about things like that.[/sub]
Congratulations! That’s an impressive achievment. You should hook up with Chronos; you two have much in common, I’m sure. He’s currently working on his doctorate in relativistic physics.
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Quite deserving of a thread if you ask me…