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[enismirdal]

I GOT THE PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Congratulations! :)

[luin77.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

That is fantastic! :) I am very happy for you!! *hugs, then does a happy dance for you*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaaahey! *smooches* You're the greatest. Conngratulations, enjoy it!

[tuxedo-elf.livejournal.com]

YAY! You are win!

Congrats!

[eveiya.livejournal.com]

YAY! Congratulations! *snogs*

Now go celebrate! :-D

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I have a bottle of Tesco £2.50 "French Red Wine". It is getting opened. *bounce*

[l-j-b.livejournal.com]

w00!
Eni FTW ^_^

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

You ROCK sweetie!! That's great news - congratulations (not that I'm surprised...)
*HUGS!!!*

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

Yay!

(People who deserve PhDs this year who have got them) ++;

I can't quite get my mind around the concept of Eni in London. Then again I can't really manage this with edith_the_hutt either and he's been there for nearly two years now.

Well done anyway.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

PhD in beeeeeeeeeees! It was the place I was praying for!

[lauand.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!!!!! ^^

[hypatia-v.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

YAY!!! Congratulations!! *hugs*

[mirien.livejournal.com]

Oh WELL DONE!!!

[mirien.livejournal.com]

Ooops, that's Brian's pissed off face in the comment above. Sorreee! But I am so pleased for you!

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

*looks clueless*

What place?

*I will ask you next time I see you* He he he.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

PhD place - got back this evening and the supervisor had e-mailed me saying he was offering me the place!!!!!!! *bounces*

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Well hoonay! Go you! *bounces along with you* That is quite the thing!

[lilnick.livejournal.com]

Congrats. Glad your're so happy about it.

[melime.livejournal.com]

Hey, congrats! BEES! XD

Your system confuses me so much, though. I can't believe you're going for a PhD now. That's like woah. Over here PhD students are usually a lot older than us, 'cause you have to get through grad school first and that's like another two-four years or something.

You're going to be a Doctor of Beeeeees!

... And I really just like saying beeeeeeeeeees!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

What sort of degree/diploma/title do you get at the end of grad school? A Master's?

That's scary...I think financially that would be really hard over here, considering student debt after just an undergraduate degree, unless a UK grad school equivalent offered BIG grants to students... PhDs luckily tend to have funding of an average of £12,000 a year, I believe, so you can get by.

[melime.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one goes to grad school to get a Masters. Only then can you become a PhD student. I'd love to be Dr. Amanda, but I don't think I can handle six or so more years of school! Bleh! (Also, writing a thesis is scary!)

Eee, that's sooo cool that you're going to be a PhD student! I'm so excited for you! Dr. Eni of BEES!

[claroscuro.livejournal.com]

Oh SQUEE!

[hermeneut-me.livejournal.com]

Well done, Eni. You no doubt deserve it and certainly have the passion for it, I'm really pleased for you! xxx

[nienna-weeper.livejournal.com]

WHOO HOO!

You go girl!

[cobalt-skye.livejournal.com]

Squee!
Go you!
(The only non-Path person I know this year going for a PhD)

Squee!
May I ask (in laymans terms) what the bee project is about?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

It's a sort of "flowers through a bee's eyes" sort of thing - there's a database of colour/reflectance data for flowers all over the world, and my job will basically be to do something with it. So on the one hand I'll be looking for trends in the data, for example how colours of flowers change in different environements, and on the other hand playing with bees to see what they think of different colours under different conditions.

[cobalt-skye.livejournal.com]

BTW as perplexednatsci pointed out (and my brain about 10 mins after I posted that comment) I also know him, Lara and Helen taking PhDs next year...
Whoops!

[natsci-mark.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Great news, well done.

[blue-beret.livejournal.com]

WOOT!

Go Eni, go Eni!

*dances*

Using my special yay icon...

[lifes-a-dream.livejournal.com]

YAAAAY! Go you! :) xx

[(Anonymous)]

Well done.
And do I see Eni commenting on comments before 0900?
Abner

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

No, it was after 9 but before 10; LJ simply hasn't noticed we're on British summer time not UCT/GMT at the moment. Hehehe.

[(Anonymous)]

That makes sense. I also have to say that I am impressed with how quickly QMUL responded considering how badly organised other London Colleges are...
Abner

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Well, it's been unofficial communication with the supervisor so far. So since it's all personal e-mailing back and forth it's not as bad.

[illusive-shelle.livejournal.com]

Many conga rats! *sends boxes of dancing rodents*

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

*squeeeeeeeeeeee* Well done! *hugs*

[fiona-kitty.livejournal.com]

Well done. :)

[nybiara.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

Ooh, well done.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Sqeeee! Oook! Oook! You are to become a proper ackademmick!

Hopefully you will have recovered by tomorrow afternoon, in time for a picnic.

[blue-blue.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!!
*smooches*

(Does that mean you already have a Master degree? That was quick! Masters usually take 4 years - and PhD comes after that. You must have started early!)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

No - in the UK they accept you on to most PhD courses with only a Bachelor's degree. The only time it's worth doing a Master's before a PhD is a) if you're not sure you want to go into research and need a "taster year" to think about it or b) if your grades were too low on your Bachelor's degree to be accepted on to a PhD project.

It's funny, actually - I hear German universities will take English PhD students who don't have a Master's, yet if they recruit a German student for exactly the same position, they will need to have a Master's! (Which sort of sucks for my German friend, who studied here in the UK and is getting a UK degree, but fancied returning to Germany for her PhD.)

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Oh great!!

umm...what place did you get? I've been gone a week and don't intend to read back on LJ that far.
*grin*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I was terribly terribly clear about it in my entries anyway, so no worries! It's a PhD place in London to do beeeeeeeees. Got an e-mail on Friday to tell me that he's going to offer me the position. :D :D

[pincushions.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's great news. And which university in London?

[emperor]

Congratulations :)