After an excruciating week between his written exams and oral exam, Heath and I traveled to South Bend for him to meet with his examiners: Mark Noll, John McGreevy, Jayanta Sangupta and Tom Slaughter. Yes, you read that right—Slaughter.
After an hour of grilling and just a minute or so of deliberation, they proclaimed Heath ABD (all but dissertation).
Yes, 220 books and dozens of anxiety dreams later, Heath is ABD. He will NEVER have to take another test again!
After he was done we headed over to the history department's holiday party and he got to share the good news with his friends.
The next step is getting his dissertation proposal together, but we'll let that wait until we're home from our holiday travels. In the meantime, the next big date on Heath's mind is Friday the 19th, the day of his post-exam extravaganza.
We'll have pictures to post from that later this weekend.
5 comments:
Excited for the Extravaganza! OF COURSE you passed, Heath!!!!
Many many congratulations to you, Heath! Maybe you'll miss taking all those tests and go for a second doctorate?
WoW Congradulations Heath, From one to another I understand your pain and happiness, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Thais, I love and miss you both dearly, but you are both never far from our thoughts, prayers and conversations, all the best in this up and coming year and love to your families, Hugs an Big Kisses, Melin (ps we need to have a post dissertation celebration at the cabin, y'all come now ya hear)
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Many Congratulations!! Heath you are one of the smartest people we know and we knew you'd pass with flying colors!! Congrats again!
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