Yahoo,
I’ve just logged on to my university account and found out that I now have a Psychology MSc pass with merit.
I’m off to celebrate.
Cathy
Congratulations!
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Yay for…not knowing what that means.
CONGRATS!!!
Have you been working on your degree and a thesis all the while learning to uni, and being a way cool mom? 
Be very proud!
Blake
Good work! Well done you!
You will, of course, be collecting your degree on a uni at your graduation?
Is a change of job imminent…?
Steve
That was Quick! I thought you had only been on the course for 1 term, or did something pass me by?
SArah
Yes, and working full time.
Yes, I will be collecting my degree but I’ll have to master stairs if I’m going to do it on a uni. Well, who knows, it’ll be a few months yet.
No change of job - I’ve just changed it in October - for the next degree.
Wow Sarah, you’re on the ball.
I’ve started my doctorate in October. (It didn’t rely on my passing my MSc though). I seem to be collecting degrees like I’m collecting unicycles (exept I’m collecting unicycles a bit faster).
Cathy
I’ll second that, errrr, like tenth that. And you manage to keep posting here too, and work FT, and get MORE education.
You go girl!!! Congrats!!
Billy
Thank you all. (if there was a kiss smiley I’d blow you all a kiss)
Cathy
PS I also unicycle
Well done, Cathwood. Massive achievement.
Ah-ha, another unicycling accademic with a clutch of certificates to prove it. Does this mean that in three years time we will have to “trust you, your a Dr”
Sarah
Absolutely.
And since I have been working towards that for the past 8 years I’ll need to creat another challenge for myself. So I thought I’d get myself a coker and go on any unitours that may be around in 2009. What d’you think?
Cathy
Cathwood:
Being is a Dr. Is way more fun than most PhDs ever want to let on. I had my degree for a day and people started calling me Dr. Bobo on account of my unicycling and juggling, of course! When my son is really naughty he has to call me Doctor Mom. He does so begrudgingly, it’s so cute!!! He hee that’s the best. I strongly recommend another several years of graduate education just for that. 
Now I am starting another degree, a bachelors in music (for my cello playing). I feel justified in getting a less ‘practical’ degree because I work at a university so most of my tuition is free and I feel that I paid my dues getting my MS (Forestry) and PhD (Soil Sci). I did do some impractical education, too: I dropped out of high school and I have a bachelors in sculpture. Golly, I think I’m in like 28th grade by now.
Keep collecting the degrees. The Doctorate should be a cake walk compared to the MS. At least in the US, you learn how to do science with the MS, for PhD you just do some more of it! You may even be able to incorporate some of your FT job in your dissertation write up. The best unsolicited advice I have: Choose a committe of people you like who are easy to work with and know what kind of beer/wine/scotch they drink. 
What will you be a doctor of? I just love hearing from people at the beginning of adventures like this.
BTW my coker was my graduation present for myself, too!
I’ll be a doctor of clinical psychology. It’s actually called a D.Clin.Pscychol. Only half of it involves research, the other half involves taught academic work and practical experience. It’s going great so far.
When I was a nurse I remeber complaining to my husband that the paediatricians expected to be called Dr …, even by people they had worked with for 10 years. My husband said, well they had worked for a long time to earn it. Ha! Just wait until he has to call me doctor.
Cathy