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| The name of your target is— Doctor. Jamie. McCandless! |
Twelve years of grade school.
Four years of undergraduate
school.
Six years of graduate school.
Roll all that up together and
you’ll understand the feeling you have when your “little” brother becomes the
first doctorate in the family.
Jamie has always been smarter
than me (no real trick there), and that was never clearer than when he mapped
out a path to his doctoral degree and proceeded to follow it to the very
end. Me?
I walked into college with no idea what a degree was or why I needed
it. I just knew I was supposed to have
one. Here’s the actual conversation with
the student aid counselor as I was signing up for classes my freshman year:
“What’s
your degree path?”
“Ummm
. . . Communications? That’s a path,
right?”
[typing
on the computer]
“Sure. Which specific Comm degree?”
“Ummm,
is Speech a thing?”
[more
typing]
“You’re
signed up. NEXT!”
No exaggeration there at
all. Which goes to show just how far
ahead of the game my brother is.
CONGRATULATIONS JAMIE!
So, what is Jamie's doctorate in?
ReplyDeleteHistory. If you want more specifics, I'm afraid I'll have to say UR FACE, because I can't quite remember what esoteric corner of history he has specialized in.
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