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[ursula]

My general exam paper has been e-mailed to my committee, so, assuming I survive next Friday's oral exam, I will be officially ABD and have the right to a key to the math library.

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[betzle.livejournal.com]

ABD?

[ursula]

All-but-dissertation (so the official hoops are almost done).

[betzle.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[frog-lady.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I suspect that's something of a relief. :)

[ursula]

Yes. Even better now that I've written my handout for the SCA class I'm teaching tomorrow.

[chemicallace]

Congrats. That's sad that you don't always have a key to the library -- we have keys to the chemistry library regardless of our status.

[ursula]

I must say, whenever I want a physical article it's in storage anyway.

[tejolote.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Come have dinner with me & Nicole at six! There's a book I want to loan Brian, too.

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Such power!

[ursula]

My keychain can beat up your keychain!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaay!
Congratulations!

Somehow I picture the key to the math library as a large wrought iron key with magical powers... but its probably just this ordinary looking key.

[ursula]

Thank you!

The math building is vintage 60s or 70s, so we're not old enough for cool keys. Unless they fight riots.

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

Hurray!
Onward. :)

(We had a key to the dept. office only while teaching. When the dept. library reopened after a couple-decade hiatus, it was put on individual numeric codes. The key replacement fee was quite high....)

[ursula]

We have a numeric code to the lounge, but only because somebody tried to live there.

[d-m.livejournal.com]

// congratulations!

[ursula]

Thanks! (And condolences on your teeth!)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[ursula]

Nice icon :)

[amyprime.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Hoops suck.

[ursula]

Thanks!

[loveschak.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! We get magical keycard access throughout gradschool, but not on weekends or evenings.

[ursula]

To the library, or to the building?

[loveschak.livejournal.com]

We get a normal key to the building. The magical keycard leads to the department's well-stocked "reading room." (There's also a "math/physics library" that's open on the weekend, but that nobody gets keys to.) The magical keycard unlocks the door when you hold it up to a magical square on the wall. The magic is powerful enough that I can keep my card in my wallet in my pocket, and open the door by holding my hip near the magical square.

[ursula]

Magical indeed!

[loveschak.livejournal.com]

Further investigation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_card) reveals that my card is probably nothing more than an integrated circuit that transmits a binary code to the receiver when an attached inductor-capacitor circuit is excited by an electromagnetic field from the receiver. Of course, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic in the absence of Wikipedia.

[house-elf.livejournal.com]

congrats!!

[ursula]

Merci!