Congratulations Dr. becca!
June 17, 2011
I wish to extend my warmest congratulations to our long term reader, annoyer of cobloggers, holder of feet to the fire and all around insightful and hilarious commenter becca who announced the successful defense of her dissertation today.
7 years…6 committee members…5 giant full lab notebooks…4 manuscripts/drafts…3 Thesis Advisors…2 grey hairs…1 PhD
You can tell from this and from the occasional details she posts in comments around the scientific blogs that it has not been an easy road. And yet she has persevered and succeeded in being awarded the Ph.D. for her work.
Congratulations, my friend.
Congratulations on all of your hard work, late nights and frustrating experiments.
I am very much looking forward to the tales of your next endeavors as a scientist.
DrugMonkey 
June 17, 2011 at 10:27 am
Congrats becca!!!
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June 17, 2011 at 10:33 am
Bloody well done! You worked hard for this. I’ve only known you a wee while but I got the impression this hasn’t been easy. Tenacity is essential in a scientist 🙂
Tideliar/BrooksPhD
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June 17, 2011 at 10:54 am
Congrats!!!
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June 17, 2011 at 11:11 am
W00t! But now that you’re Dr becca, how will people tell us apart?
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June 17, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Well, Dr. Becca, only ONE of you looks like an elephant ass.
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June 17, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Oh, YAY!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!! W00t!!! Well done! Celebrate madly!!!
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June 17, 2011 at 2:02 pm
That’s great! Congratulations!
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June 17, 2011 at 2:53 pm
*yay*
Big Congrats from one who’s hopefully not far behind you!
*hugs*
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June 17, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Congrats to the new Dr. Becca! Things may get confusing…
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June 17, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Maybe the “old” Dr. Becca should now be “Prof. Becca” while Becca is now the new Dr. Becca.
Anyway, congrats! Maybe CPP will stop picking on you now…
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June 19, 2011 at 10:50 am
Thankee kindly, all!
@DM, thankee especially. I don’t know if it was more wishful thinking or wise perspective, but I appreciate that you always seemed to think it was a given I’d get through (eventually).
Though someone needs to congratulate my PhD advisor on his patience. He’s right; it’s like parenting in that you get all of the blame if it goes awry, but little of the credit when it goes well.
Now, please schmack CPP upside the head with a bullshit comment about fine wine or yummy cheese and things that get better with age (yeah, I know grad students don’t, generally. but some of us do actually need to mature a little. Crickies.)
@Dr. Becca- I have been pondering this problem. I think the B vs. b distinction would be far too subtle. If you do not wish to become a well-earned Prof Becca, I will most likely remain becca.
@Tideliar- what I always wonder about is the difference between Einstein (“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”) and Edison (“I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work”). My PhD experience was definitely more of the later.
@Pharm Sci Grad- Thank you as well, and go go GO! The last stretch was not the one with the biggest roadblocks for me, but it is good to finish strong so I wish you all the energy you can throw at your own thesis/defense. *hugs*
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June 23, 2011 at 9:41 am
Oh Becca,
Now you finally leave that endless grad student rage behind and concentrate on that lusty, frothy post-doc rage yet to come!
Congrats!
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June 23, 2011 at 10:26 am
Oh, you know how to find us Feelgood? Where’ve you been?
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June 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Congratulations, becca!
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