I'm a candidate!

[mindstalk]

I came home today (after the 9:30am lecture for the class I'm TAing, the goal of which is to get the CS students closer to the hardware, and to give them a mental model of how a program actually executes -- cf. my programming post a while back -- and which is 10% female, and as far as I could tell 90% white. C335, for the CS majors reading this) to find a package from the Graduate School, formally announcing that I'm a PhD candidate (in no particular school!), complete with a graduation-style (thick paper, Gothic font) certificate. Which feels silly, but also feels good. I turned in my CS orals paperwork back in March, and never quite got the cog sci paperwork in yet, so I don't know what administrative mechanisms ground this out today.

What I really want to come home to are my umbrellas.

I suppose being forced to get in the mornings will be good for my life and discipline, but right now I just feel punchy and unmotivated. Time for laundry, and maybe cleaning!

Comments

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and/or condolences.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Dan! Actually the class should be interesting -- the students will be programming a simple upgraded robot, and then for the last lab do a buffer overflow attack on it, so I'll see a lot I haven't seen up close before.

Just, you know, I have four hours of sleep. And a certificate!

[schenker28.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I didn't know if they really noticed the PhD candidate status -- nice to know it comes with a certificate!

I'm wondering if I count as a candidate in CS... I'm not in CogSci yet since I still have a year of classes in CogSci and then have to turn in some paper for the written qualification...