Don't worry, I'm a doctor!

[readingredhead]

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.)

Comments

[fallenrose24.livejournal.com]

I just like the paradox of being a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry...a philosophical chemist? I would think something about more factual would be appropriate haha! I guess it'll fit well with my Bachelors of the Arts in Chemistry.

"Saw another contradiction today...it reminded me of my Starburst..."

On a side note the whole Doctor of Philosophy thing is probably where Dr. Phil got his name...that poser!

We can be doctors together! So when someone is about ready to die of a heartattack and someone asks if there's a doctor in the house, we can say yes and then talk the patient to death and be utterly useless! Woohoo!

[transientrain.livejournal.com]

Um, hello, welcome to my life.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

And it's such a good life! I keep trying to get my sister to watch Doctor Who but as she told me the other day, "I'm silly and obstinate and so the more you tell me I'm going to like it the less I actually will." So, laying off that for a while.