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Title: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Borek on December 19, 2009, 01:48:14 PM: I have just spotted we have a new Admin here - since when? ;)

Congrats Dr. Mitch :)
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Mitch on December 19, 2009, 06:02:46 PM: Thank you! ;)
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: billnotgatez on December 19, 2009, 10:43:29 PM: most excellent
Title: Congratulations to Mitch!
Post by: sjb on December 20, 2009, 05:10:10 AM: Hey, just noticed you've changed your handle to Dr Mitch - does this mean you've passed your viva etc.? If so, many congratulations from me.
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Borek on December 20, 2009, 07:08:38 AM: I have posted similar thread yesterday, obviously in a little bit too internal forum - moved and merged now :)
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Mitch on December 20, 2009, 12:31:19 PM: Yup, submitted everything I needed to become a doctor. Now I'm looking for a postdoctoral position.
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: nj_bartel on December 20, 2009, 02:46:56 PM: Congrats!
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Dan on December 20, 2009, 05:19:45 PM: Nice!
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Post by: renge ishyo on December 21, 2009, 08:03:37 PM: Congratulations! A nice Christmas present if you ask me ;)
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Borek on December 22, 2009, 01:56:05 PM: I wonder - do we know what is the situation of other graduate students staff members? Movies? hmx9123?
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: billnotgatez on December 22, 2009, 08:51:23 PM: was not hmx going to the same school as mitch
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Post by: Vortex on December 23, 2009, 10:51:29 AM: Congratulations Dr Mitch. :)
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Post by: Med90 on December 23, 2009, 11:15:22 PM: congratulation Dr. Mitch.
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: DrCMS on December 24, 2009, 05:17:31 AM: Welcome to the club.
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Fleaker on December 30, 2009, 11:29:58 PM: Welcome to a brave new world.

I was under the impression you defended and finalized all of that back in May or early summer though :P

Have fun harassing physicians!
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: kevins on January 07, 2010, 09:21:36 AM: congratulation Dr. Mitch. ;) ;)
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Post by: owen886 on May 18, 2010, 05:56:04 AM: what i could only say is also congratulations!
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: movies on February 03, 2011, 11:41:53 AM: Quote from: Borek on December 22, 2009, 01:56:05 PM
I wonder - do we know what is the situation of other graduate students staff members? Movies? hmx9123?

I hadn't noticed this topic, so my apologies for my late congratulations to Mitch!

As for me, I defended in June of 2009 and have moved on to a postdoc position now. So far so good – looking to land a job sometime next winter!
Title: Dr. Movies
Post by: Borek on February 03, 2011, 03:15:14 PM: Quote from: movies on February 03, 2011, 11:41:53 AM
I defended in June of 2009

Congratulations!

Glad to see you have not forgot about us completely :)
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Dan on February 03, 2011, 04:09:33 PM: I also recently defended (successfully) - last week actually! Just waiting for the examiners to approve minor corrections, then I can submit the final hardbound version.

I've now moved from carbohydrates to a postdoc in transition metal catalysis methodology.
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Borek on February 03, 2011, 06:52:07 PM: Wow, congrats to you too :)

Soon we will have enough PhDs to open our own university ;)
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: movies on February 04, 2011, 01:08:19 PM: Thanks and congrats to you too, Dan! I hope you enjoy the transition metal thing; I have kind of gone in the other direction, working on enantioselective transition metal chemistry and total synthesis in grad school to what amounts to medicinal chemistry (with some enantioselective catalysis) for my postdoc. It is always good to learn new things!
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: azmanam on February 04, 2011, 01:57:39 PM: While we're horn-tooting, I defended back in July, 2010, and am starting my second semester teaching at a small, primarily-undergraduate, liberal arts university in the midwest (US)

My congrats also go out to Dan, Movies, and others who recently escaped the clutches of PhD hell :)
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: 408 on February 04, 2011, 03:38:50 PM: Quote from: azmanam on February 04, 2011, 01:57:39 PM
PhD hell

The pay yes, but surely some others actually enjoy it?
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: azmanam on February 04, 2011, 04:19:35 PM: Quote
some others actually enjoy it?

Those are, as yet, unconfirmed rumors.

Or government plants.
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: nj_bartel on February 04, 2011, 04:56:08 PM: Didn't realize we had so many doctorates! Congrats to all
Title: Re: Dr. Mitch
Post by: Dan on February 04, 2011, 07:04:59 PM: Quote from: movies on February 04, 2011, 01:08:19 PM
I have kind of gone in the other direction, working on enantioselective transition metal chemistry and total synthesis in grad school to what amounts to medicinal chemistry (with some enantioselective catalysis) for my postdoc. It is always good to learn new things!

Ah, medchem with chirality excites me. Belated congrats, and good luck. Yeah, I wanted to try something new - I spent 4.5 years doing target synthesis from the carbohydrate chiral pool with no need for asymmetric catalysis, loved it, but I thought catalysis methodology would be an interesting way to broaden my experience.

The weird thing is going back into the lab as a properly paid professional having been out of the lab for months with writing up, conference, moving cities. Your hands don't quite know what to do at first! Ah, but the feel of purple nitrile on your skin again... a pair of tweezers in your hand, a new manifold in your hood and a faint whiff of EtOAc in your nostrils. It feels good. I actually missed doing columns - I never thought I would!