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Sep 01, 2009 DivisionByZero link
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You now must prefix my name with Dr.

That is all.
Sep 01, 2009 LeberMac link
Doctor Zero?

Sounds like a comically bad villain in a James Bond flick.
Sep 01, 2009 ladron link
Dr. Terrible? That's even worse : p
Sep 01, 2009 Dr. Lecter link
I think VO has enough Dr.s already.
Sep 02, 2009 Shadoen link
No need to get fancy, you're just a dentist :P
Sep 02, 2009 look... no hands link
Dr. Zero Teeth
Sep 02, 2009 diqrtvpe link
Yeah, but Dr. Smaug actually sounds somewhat badass. Congratulations, Herr Doktor!
Sep 02, 2009 DivisionByZero link
Heh.

I like all those names. (Dr. Smaug the Terrible Zero?)

Actually, some people started calling me Dr. J. over here in my office. That makes me laugh, too.

And Lecter, we already know you're actually Mr. Lecter, Esq.
Sep 02, 2009 Dr. Lecter link
Beats being a dentist. Being a Dr. w/o the M.D. is just silly :)

Besides, you do know what J.D. stands for, no?
Sep 02, 2009 DivisionByZero link
Junior Dentist.

ZING!

besides, I'm not a dentist, but I find it humorous that everyone jumped on Shadoen's funny.
Sep 02, 2009 nycblkboy link
Congrats DivisionByZero

So what u a doctor of?

--jest bess
Sep 02, 2009 DivisionByZero link
Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Engineering.
Sep 02, 2009 Dr. Lecter link
Ah, a piled higher and deeper--and in a hard science. I congratulate you, sir.
Sep 02, 2009 Shadoen link
Probably had something to do with "The Hangover" ;)

What exactly does a doctor of philosophy in nuclear engineering do?

Bleh, I've still got 4 more years left until I become a doctor myself. Pretty awesome except for the almost complete lack of social life, and tests almost every damn day of the week, including saturdays. I do get to cut corpses though :3

Baaack to studying now...
how was it again? err..oh yeah insulin deficiency results in increased protein catabolism for alternate energy source and decreased glucose absorption resulting in electrolyte deficiency, hiperglycemia, osmotic diuresis, increased levels of aminoacids in plasma, increased levels of free fatty acids in plasma, ketonemia, ketogenesis, and ketonuria. Results in dehydration and acidosis, then finally coma and death.
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yay!
Sep 02, 2009 LeberMac link
Well congrats, /0. No go find the Higgs Boson and get that antigravity thing working, will ya?
Sep 02, 2009 zamzx zik link
Dr. Devision
Sep 02, 2009 DivisionByZero link
Asking what a PhD does is kinda like asking how many licks it takes to get to the center of tootsie-pop.

Mostly think about how we understand the world to currently work, figure out what we don't know yet, dream up some new things and then test them --- Except pertaining to specific fields. In my case, I think about how liquid metals will move in fusion reactors and similar environments... and then blast the crap out of some with an electron gun to see if I'm right.

And I was. :D

By the way, my sister has an MD. It really didn't sound like fun when she was going through it. The benefit of the cadavre lab, though, is you can bring younger siblings in to freak them out. At least, she did. Good luck!
Sep 02, 2009 toshiro link
How you stand on ceremony. I don't ask to be suffixed 'Master of the Universe', either, do I?
Sep 02, 2009 Shadoen link
"blast the crap out of some with an electron gun to see if I'm right."
I wish I could shoot stuff with electron guns. You lucky bastard, I envy you :(

Hahaha! But, Im guessing it sounds more awesome than it actually is, right?
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right?
Sep 02, 2009 look... no hands link
My little sister is going to college for biology and chemistry i think. she's about to start her senior year. I never went to college, just Vo-Tech in high school for welding. It was supposed to be a 4 year course, ended up being able do it in two. Best advise I got was to not be afraid to jump around from job to job while young, the little bit of everything experience has served to make me flexible in what I can do.