Awesomesauce

[lyore]

Well, guess who got her letter of offer for her Masters today? Go me.

In other news of awesome, courtesy of animator, the most awesome macro to ever awesome:



(Outside a cut since the image is small - let me know if it causes any problems for anyone.)

Also from animator: The Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. I qualify for way to many of those badges *g*

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Interesting. We also have a professional engineering certification, (Chartered Professional Engineer), which requires you have a Bachelors from an accredited uni, have completed a lot of things called 'Career Episode Reports', where you demonstrate you have met certain professional 'competencies', and then an interview. It's supposed to take at least 5 years after you graduate to get it, although I know some people get it in less.

In Australia, it's unusual to find someone with a masters and a PhD - as I said, we have this thing called 'honours', which negates the need to do a masters for entry into a PhD. So theoretically, I could have gone directly from my undergrad degree to my PhD right now - in fact, I turned down a couple of offers to do just that! (Mostly because I liked the idea of getting paid... *g*) And no exams, at least that I know off, it's mostly applications and written stuff and interviews.

We have the same thing, doing less technical work as we get promoted - it's one of the reasons I'm doing this one now, while I still can *g*

Interesting how two different countries can have such different takes on things with the same name!