When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the Master.
Only a Master of Evil, but still, I passed my qualifying exam this morning.
ERV hasnt gotten kicked out of grad school yet! Win!
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Congrats! Way to hang in there.
Woo! congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congrats from one of the bloglurkers, that reads but rarely comments ;)
Your thoughts betray you, ERV. I feel the good in you, the conflict.
Sorry, had to be said. Congrats, anyway.
Good going, grasshopper.
WooWoo!
"You got more than enough evil hours to get into the Henchman's Union...."
Congratulations!!!
Now rub your hands together and say "Oh yessss they laughed at me at the institute......."
*cue thunder*
*horses scream*
Congratulations! Now do you take over the world?
Congrats Abbie!
And now, the real work begins!
Any big evil plans in the works?
Congratulations, Abbie!
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.
Congrats, from one grad student who just passed orals to another.
*Snoopy Dance*
Congrats Abbie!!
Congrats from another lurker who rarely comments. Love the blog.
Who'd have thought evil could do so much good?!
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
Congrats!!!
Congratulations Abbie! I assume you will post pictures of when you get the Celebratory Sweater soon?
Congratulations! Now you just need to build a freeze ray!
Will you show them now, Abbie?
WILL YOU SHOW THEM!?
Congratulations!
A well-earned victory. So say we all.
Congratulations!
Congratufibulations!!
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations!
THEY will be pleased.
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.
w00t!
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.
Well done Abbie,now to new Horizons !!
Congratulations. Like they say at the dairy, "We're pulling for you."
Congratulations! Now, to tell you of the tragedy of Darth Plagueis "the wise"...
Congratulations! Dame Fortune has never smiled upon a wittier defender of science!
SH
Wits or GTFO. ^.^
Well done! May you dance on the graves of all who have debated you. Or something to that effect ;)
Abbie: WIN!
Grad school: ?
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.
My sincerest contrafibularities.
I CAN HAZ HIV KUR? K TNX!
I echo Fitz at 42 and throw in a w00t as a bonus.
Good for you Abbie Smith.
Well deserved. Congratulations!
Hooray!
Grad school is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.
Congratulations. It's highly deserved.
Congratulations!
Excellent and congratulations!
Yay!
Awesome! Keep up the good work.
Happy Monkey,
Ray
Well, how about you!
I'm sure it must feel wicked cool.
Another goal reached, another goal beckoning. Where will it all lead?
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.
Congratulations! Master of Evil-lution, I presume?
Go for a beautiful semitropical island. Volcanoes are so passé.
Congratulations! Keep up the good work!
Yay ERV!
D's this mean you got more/less time to kick creo butt?
cue: evil, maniacal laughter machine
Our plot is working! Today OU, tomorrow the world!
again with laugh track
Congratulations indeed.