You worked your ass off, baby, and don't let anyone tell you differently. Getting a doctorate is incredibly hard work and you should enjoy it.
That having been said, I frequently denirate MY Ph.D. (not other people's) because I hate people saying "You have a Ph.D. you must be so brilliant" when what I feel like having my Ph.D. shows is that I'm tenacious and incapable of giving up even when things get rediculous... not that it signifies any particular brilliance on my part. This is partially because I feel like I got my Ph.D. by default - it's not something I worked for with great love like you did. It's something I was raised to get when I would rather have been doing theater.
But there's also this, a certain PhD in our mutual acquaintance circle has driven many people crazy wanting to be called Dr.X. in situations not even remotely related to hir field. This would be cute, normal, and expected from a newly minted PhD, but is a behaviour that you do eventually expect a person to get over. I don't know whose being a PITA at you, but it may be somewhat from frustration.
But anyway, Dr. Rivka, I think you rock. Tell your detractors to go to hell, and then pummel them with your framed diploma.
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Date: 2003-09-03 12:46 pm (UTC)That having been said, I frequently denirate MY Ph.D. (not other people's) because I hate people saying "You have a Ph.D. you must be so brilliant" when what I feel like having my Ph.D. shows is that I'm tenacious and incapable of giving up even when things get rediculous... not that it signifies any particular brilliance on my part. This is partially because I feel like I got my Ph.D. by default - it's not something I worked for with great love like you did. It's something I was raised to get when I would rather have been doing theater.
But there's also this, a certain PhD in our mutual acquaintance circle has driven many people crazy wanting to be called Dr.X. in situations not even remotely related to hir field. This would be cute, normal, and expected from a newly minted PhD, but is a behaviour that you do eventually expect a person to get over. I don't know whose being a PITA at you, but it may be somewhat from frustration.
But anyway, Dr. Rivka, I think you rock. Tell your detractors to go to hell, and then pummel them with your framed diploma.