Wahooo!!! Congratulations to Doctor G. That's awesome, and Shauny, I knew you had to be marrying a smart man (he did want you, after all!) but I had no idea he was DOCTOR type smart. Very cool.

I wonder if that's some sort of sneaky trick on the part of the uni? Engineering, a typically male profession - and making them wear pink, a typically female colour. Hehehe, I like their style. Also, congratulations to Dr. G! Oooh, heavens, you've married a doctor. Won't your mother be proud?

Well done Doctor G... love the name!!

Bravo Dr. G, bravo indeed.

Mind you, he must possess a certain twisted intelligence... I mean a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering? How many ways ARE there to wire a plug???

(is now a good time to mention that my lowly college education was in the same field?)

What? No photo?
I really want to see a pic of the Doctor in his robes.
please please please

Congrats Dr. G!

Chris

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Whooo HOOOOOO Congrats to Dr. G! That's AWESOME!

Woo hoo! Go Dr. G!

SEXY!

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Hmmm, there WAS a photo when I was looking last night (at silly o'clock in the morning) I thought the pomp and circumstance most becoming. Was the man on the left there to hit Dr G over the head? I hear you get thumped with John Knox's trews in St Andrews, but that might not be the case...
I think they give you odd coloured gowns so that if you become an academic and obviously you don't BUY your own gown, then at academic to-dos they throw all the weird gowns and hats in the middle of the room and they fight one another for the least odd looking stuff. At least they do in Aberdeen (and nobody wants the silly floppy trencher than the least swift have to wear).

well gordon apparently there's lots more you can do besides plugs and wires. Dr G gets to do stuff like design power lines and power plants and all sorts of stuff that could kill you. sounds thrilling eh? mwahahha :P

and donalda, yes that was the dude that whacked him over the head! there was a pic earlier but the Doctor is a wee bit shy about having his pink-clad self on the net so i took it down :)

Congratulations to Gareth - I assume his thesis was paradigm-shifting?

Hooray!

Did he have to wear a funny floppy hat too? My university made the PhD graduates wear a floppy silk hat.

What was the thesis?

Congrats to Doctor G. A fabulous accomplishment !!!! BTW I love those funny hats and gowns - make you feel so important for that tiny second you are up on stage - then they make you feel like a fool :)

NB

the thesis was something about generators... ummm... i've read it (i proof-read the words that i could understand) but was beyond my little brain! dr g, care to elaborate? :P

rosemary - no floppy hat! no mortar board either. a flaming disappointment i tells ya.

Congratulations, Doctor G!!!

That new study, painted in sunny yellow, should have a large photo of Dr G in his flowing magenta robes with his 'proud wife' at his side (perhaps Doctor G's proud parents too?)....an exciting moment....well done!

Congratulations Dr G!

j

Magenta, eh? heh heh heh

Does emailing the pic to everyone count as "on the interweb" ?

What, no mortarboard or silly hat? Not fair. But the magenta sounds... well, not very Gareth. (My own boy is graduating MSc soon, and I was disappointed to learn last night that his hood is black and grey. Very macho. And boring.)

Anyway, woohoo to Dr G, and to you too for doing all the proofreading. Helpful Shauny!

Yo Dr G! You da main man! ;D
Congratulations!

A dozen cheers for Doctor G! I am slaving over a hot one back here in the states (heavens, that doesn't sound right at all), and hope to be Doctor Max in the next couple of years. I look forward to looking like an arse in my doctoral robes (bright red at my Uni, so I'll look like a giant tomato). I know how difficult it is, and how proud you must be! Huzzah!

Congratulations, Doctor G!!

how cool! Must be nice to known as Mrs. Dr. G;)

Both you and Gareth have had a huge year, full of everything!

Just post one on Flickr. He'll never know.

congrats, dr g. well done!

Very impressed. Way beyond me. I think you've earned yourself a VB. Cheers!

Congrats to Dr. G!!! :D

congratulations! I hear Electrical Engineering is actually tougher than most other things available on the academic menu. So wow, yey!

Not meaning to bring you down, but a friend of an in-law, who I hope you never meet, just received a PhD for writing a very long document about Women who Shop in some Spanish novel.

And for that, you get to call yourself doctor. Feh.

At least Gareth will have something useful to add to the world.