Don't worry, I'm a doctor!

At the dinner table with my family tonight, the subject somehow turned to our educational futures and I made a comment about how I'd love to be a doctor (PhD) so that I could make my dad (who has a doctorate in education) call me Dr. Cunard. I didn't say anything, but secretly I was also thinking about how being a doctor is about as close as I'll ever get to being the Doctor. My aunt, who has her MA, followed up my comment by saying, "Yeah, doctor is a pretty cool title. Though I always wondered why you don't get a cool title when you finish your MA. Like, why am I not a Master?" And it took SO MUCH EFFORT for me not to laugh!

Lesson learned: the Doctor > the Master, courtesy of the American educational system. (Other lesson learned: I should maybe be less of a Doctor Who fan. Maybe. Though it would be less fun.)