Please, call me Doctor
I successfully defended my dissertation thesis today at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi.
The presentation went well, 45 minutes exactly. Following that, I was grilled for 2.5 hours on subjects ranging from species distributions to taxonomy, and from fisheries regulation to gelological history. At the end, Committee Members Drs. Ian MacDonald, Stephen Cairns, Wes Tunnell, and Committee Chair Dr. Tom Shirley each shook my hand and finally pronounced me Doctor.
“Not the kind of Dr. that helps people,”one wry mother of a colleague is fond of saying.
Special thanks to my Dissertation Committee for their firm guidance and support. Now that I’ve been thoroughly grilled, I think I’ll go get basted. Woot!
Date Posted: July 20, 2009 at 5:04 PM
July 20, 2009 at 5:54 PMKate
Congrats
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July 20, 2009 at 5:56 PMDNLee
Congrats! I’ll be doing it too, REEEAAALL soon. and I love the post title, I am so stealing it when I defend. I just left my labmate’s masters defense and of course we’re partying tonight. I’ll toast one up to you, too!
Yeah Dr. Kevin Z.
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July 20, 2009 at 6:02 PMMiriam
Congratulations, Herr Doktor Etnoyer!
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July 20, 2009 at 6:31 PMMike Haubrich, FCD
Well, what time should I call you “Dr.?”
Congrats, Peter! Now we have a Dr. M, and a DR. E. When are we gonna have a Dr. Z?
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July 20, 2009 at 6:51 PMGlendon Mellow
My hat off to you sir! Congratulations Dr. Etnoyer!
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July 20, 2009 at 7:03 PMEric
Congratulations DR. Etnoyer!
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July 20, 2009 at 7:12 PMMikeG
Congratulations, Dr. Etnoyer! *raises a mug of grog*
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July 20, 2009 at 7:15 PMjuan
Congratulations Doc!!!
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July 20, 2009 at 8:00 PMMatt H.
Congrats man, er Doctor man
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July 20, 2009 at 9:08 PMThe Right Blue
Well done! Our best wishes to the newly minted Dr. Etnoyer for a long and fruitful career. Congratulations.
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July 20, 2009 at 10:54 PMKevin Z
W00t!!! Way to go man! You’ve earned it! Now give me a job
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July 20, 2009 at 11:26 PMTessa
My heartiest congratulations!
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July 21, 2009 at 2:05 AMRick MacPherson
congrats!
welcome to the club!
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July 21, 2009 at 5:05 AMcrazycris
Congratulations!
2.5h of grilling?! Yikes! I’m glad I don’t have to go through tthat! I should be passing my defense this Fall (if all goes well) in Belgium, but there the time is limited to 2h, including the 45′ presentation. So at max I’m looking at 1h15 grilling… and it will only be on the thesis matter.
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July 21, 2009 at 11:28 AMJennifer Frazer
Awesome! Felicitations!
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July 26, 2009 at 8:02 AMBlondie
Congratulations on your achievement. I know it is a lot of hard work. Now maybe you will make more money!
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