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Only a Master of Evil, but still, I passed my qualifying exam this morning.
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« Dog Aggression: Its not the breed, its the human | Main | HIV infections will never be traced to VA? Liar, liar, pants-on-fire. »
The circle is now complete...
Category: School Stuff
Posted on: May 7, 2009 12:45 PM, by ERV
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Congo rats!
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | May 7, 2009 12:58 PM
Congrats! Way to hang in there.
Posted by: Physicalist | May 7, 2009 1:25 PM
Woo! congratulations!
Posted by: Marc | May 7, 2009 1:25 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Wendryn | May 7, 2009 1:41 PM
Congrats from one of the bloglurkers, that reads but rarely comments ;)
Posted by: Bo Dixen Pedersen | May 7, 2009 1:44 PM
Your thoughts betray you, ERV. I feel the good in you, the conflict.
Sorry, had to be said. Congrats, anyway.
Posted by: Phillip IV | May 7, 2009 1:49 PM
Good going, grasshopper.
Posted by: Greg Laden | May 7, 2009 1:54 PM
WooWoo!
Posted by: BAllanJ | May 7, 2009 2:04 PM
"You got more than enough evil hours to get into the Henchman's Union...."
Congratulations!!!
Posted by: James F | May 7, 2009 2:23 PM
Now rub your hands together and say "Oh yessss they laughed at me at the institute......."
*cue thunder*
*horses scream*
Posted by: Prometheus | May 7, 2009 2:32 PM
Congratulations! Now do you take over the world?
Posted by: Sascha | May 7, 2009 2:32 PM
Congrats Abbie!
Posted by: BeamStalk | May 7, 2009 2:53 PM
And now, the real work begins!
Any big evil plans in the works?
Posted by: Jared | May 7, 2009 2:58 PM
Congratulations, Abbie!
Posted by: DataJack | May 7, 2009 3:05 PM
Congratulations. Masters of Science in Biology I assume. You are continuing on for you Ph.D. right? Or is that what you just earned. Either way, an accomplishment worthy of thankfulness and a modicum of pride.
Posted by: William Wallace | May 7, 2009 3:08 PM
Congrats, from one grad student who just passed orals to another.
Posted by: Charles Siegel | May 7, 2009 3:13 PM
*Snoopy Dance*
Posted by: Optimus Primate | May 7, 2009 3:24 PM
Congrats Abbie!!
Posted by: Pdiff | May 7, 2009 3:30 PM
Congrats from another lurker who rarely comments. Love the blog.
Who'd have thought evil could do so much good?!
Posted by: Chris Challans | May 7, 2009 3:33 PM
I think the way I remember being told was....
Bachelors : You think you know everything
Masters : You realize you don't know everything
PhD : You realize you don't know anything and that no one else does either ;-)
Enjoy your accomplishment!
Pdiff
Posted by: Pdiff | May 7, 2009 3:35 PM
Congrats!!!
Posted by: Matthew | May 7, 2009 3:47 PM
Congratulations Abbie! I assume you will post pictures of when you get the Celebratory Sweater soon?
Posted by: J-Dog | May 7, 2009 3:54 PM
Congratulations! Now you just need to build a freeze ray!
Posted by: Joshua Zelinsky | May 7, 2009 4:29 PM
Will you show them now, Abbie?
WILL YOU SHOW THEM!?
Posted by: Ranson | May 7, 2009 4:35 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Hu | May 7, 2009 4:37 PM
A well-earned victory. So say we all.
Posted by: Eric Saveau | May 7, 2009 4:52 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Jonathan | May 7, 2009 5:05 PM
Congratufibulations!!
Posted by: Sili | May 7, 2009 5:06 PM
CONGRATULATIONS
Posted by: opony szczecin | May 7, 2009 5:27 PM
Congratulations!
THEY will be pleased.
Posted by: Magnus | May 7, 2009 5:33 PM
Congratulations from all of "us" and Congratulations to all of "us" for being "us."
It's all downhill from here, Abbie! Just 20 hours of lab a day for 5 years! Piece o' cake.
Posted by: Doc Bill | May 7, 2009 5:45 PM
w00t!
Posted by: Comrade PhysioProf | May 7, 2009 5:46 PM
Congratulations. So how many more years before Ph.D., postdoc, and getting a top faculty position?
And may you continue to find the creationists' lack of reason...disturbing.
Posted by: a lurker | May 7, 2009 6:43 PM
Well done Abbie,now to new Horizons !!
Posted by: clinteas | May 7, 2009 6:58 PM
Congratulations. Like they say at the dairy, "We're pulling for you."
Posted by: Mind Over Splatter | May 7, 2009 8:02 PM
Congratulations! Now, to tell you of the tragedy of Darth Plagueis "the wise"...
Posted by: paragwinn | May 7, 2009 8:15 PM
Congratulations! Dame Fortune has never smiled upon a wittier defender of science!
SH
Posted by: Scott Hatfield, OM | May 7, 2009 9:39 PM
Wits or GTFO. ^.^
Posted by: Azkyroth | May 7, 2009 9:45 PM
Well done! May you dance on the graves of all who have debated you. Or something to that effect ;)
Posted by: Immolate | May 7, 2009 11:37 PM
Abbie: WIN!
Grad school: ?
Posted by: HalfMooner | May 8, 2009 12:41 AM
No, seriously, congrats. Your grad school is lucky to have you, and wise to grant your Masters, if they know what's best for them.
It really takes someone from Kansas to be able to see whats okay in OK. News we outsiders get can sometimes cause us to forget how many great scientists can be at work in even the reddest of Red States.
Posted by: HalfMooner | May 8, 2009 6:49 AM
My sincerest contrafibularities.
Posted by: Fitz | May 8, 2009 7:45 AM
I CAN HAZ HIV KUR? K TNX!
Posted by: Richard Hendricks | May 8, 2009 11:08 AM
I echo Fitz at 42 and throw in a w00t as a bonus.
Posted by: John Phillips, FCD | May 8, 2009 12:25 PM
Good for you Abbie Smith.
Posted by: cprs | May 8, 2009 1:25 PM
Well deserved. Congratulations!
Posted by: Shrunk | May 8, 2009 1:30 PM
Hooray!
Grad school is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.
Posted by: windy | May 8, 2009 2:29 PM
Congratulations. It's highly deserved.
Posted by: Kristjan Wager | May 8, 2009 2:42 PM
Congratulations!
Posted by: Cath@VWXYNot? | May 8, 2009 7:57 PM
Excellent and congratulations!
Posted by: foxfire | May 8, 2009 9:52 PM
Yay!
Posted by: Dr Benway | May 8, 2009 10:44 PM
Awesome! Keep up the good work.
Happy Monkey,
Ray
Posted by: Ray | May 9, 2009 9:02 PM
Well, how about you!
I'm sure it must feel wicked cool.
Another goal reached, another goal beckoning. Where will it all lead?
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | May 9, 2009 10:33 PM
Muwahahahahahahahaa!
Now you must begin construction of a suitable lair. It's one of the prerequisites of becoming a Doctor of Evil. Volcanoes are usually a good spot.
Posted by: The Chimp's Raging Id | May 10, 2009 10:30 AM
Congratulations! Master of Evil-lution, I presume?
Go for a beautiful semitropical island. Volcanoes are so passé.
Posted by: Monado | May 10, 2009 9:14 PM
Congratulations! Keep up the good work!
Posted by: EyeNoU | May 10, 2009 9:54 PM
Yay ERV!
D's this mean you got more/less time to kick creo butt?
Posted by: eddie | May 11, 2009 10:50 AM
cue: evil, maniacal laughter machine
Our plot is working! Today OU, tomorrow the world!
again with laugh track
Congratulations indeed.
Posted by: Somerville | May 11, 2009 1:37 PM