I was thinking about qualifications and degrees the other day, noting that I had received no word from 'my' university. So I was pleasantly surprised when I received a letter yesterday, saying "The Research Degrees Committee met recently and confirmed the examiners recommendation to award you a Master of Research (MRes) degree". There was another letter attached to this that leaves me slightly bemused.
I am delighted to see that the Research Degrees Committee confirmed at
their July meeting that you have completed the requirements for the
Heriot-Watt University MRes degree. You are to be congratulated on an
excellent performance and I trust that your life can now return to
something approaching normality.
I wonder how much of this letter is formulaic and how much was written specifically. If I am to be congratulated on an excellent performance then couldn't have you gone a bit further and award me a doctorate? After the events of the past nine months, how can anybody's life [in Israel] return to something approaching normality?
A few weeks ago, I said to my wife that eleven/twelve years ago I was ecstatic to be awarded a master's degree; now I am disappointed to be awarded
another master's degree. As we say in Hebrew, the bigger the expectation the
greater the disappointment. And to think that a year ago I was
considering
starting a third master's degree.
| Title | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 95 | 1971 was when the music came together | Habonim, King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator, Tom Wolfe, Yes, 1971, Dave Evans, Music festivals, Jack Kerouac | |
| 264 | Alarm clock mp3 player | Clock radio | |
| 879 | Vinyl log 19 - 20 July | Van der Graaf Generator, Vinyl log, 1972 | |
| 1053 | Back to the beginning | DBA | |
| 1244 | More on Movie Maker | Home movies | |
| 1644 | The end of the country as we knew it is fast approaching | Israel |
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