When I was a graduate student at UGA, we had a running joke whenever we would do something brilliant but not what you would expect to be part of a graduate curriculum, like making a dress out of hefty bags or feats of engineering to conserve paint and ink. We would cap off the process by saying, "Half of a Master's Degree at work!" or "Two thirds of a Master's Degree at work!" counting down to our graduation date (I think the smallest documented increment was someone turning in their thesis paper saying "15/16ths of a Master's Degree at work!") Now that I am finished, I will still say to students upon doing something like fixing the hot-glue gun with another hot-glue gun or boiling felted wool dreadlocks, "A Master's Degree At Work!"
Enjoy a blog about the weirdo things that make my degree special!
When I was a graduate student at UGA, we had a running joke whenever we would do something brilliant but not what you would expect to be part of a graduate curriculum, like making a dress out of hefty bags or feats of engineering to conserve paint and ink. We would cap off the process by saying, "Half of a Master's Degree at work!" or "Two thirds of a Master's Degree at work!" counting down to our graduation date (I think the smallest documented increment was someone turning in their thesis paper saying "15/16ths of a Master's Degree at work!") Now that I am finished, I will still say to students upon doing something like fixing the hot-glue gun with another hot-glue gun or boiling felted wool dreadlocks, "A Master's Degree At Work!"
Enjoy a blog about the weirdo things that make my degree special!
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