After 6 very long, very drama-filled years of graduate school, I have finally finished and can now officially be called Dr. Cassella (or Dr. Melly to my friends)! Notice I did not write Dr. Mel - this is for 2 reasons:
(1) If anyone has watched the news in CT, you will know there is a weatherman called "Dr. Mel". Numerous members of my family thought it was really funny to compare me to an old guy..."Hey you're Dr. Mel! Now there are 2!"..."Dr. Mel! How funny! Like that guy on TV!". Yeah. Real funny. I suppose I should also tell you that, as a child, I used to hate it when people called me "Mel" because once my friend's mother thought "Mel" was the name of a boy. And then of course there was "Mel's Diner". Needless to say, I was scarred for life. So you can imagine my horror when I was suddenly being compared to some old man named Mel.
(2) There is already a Dr. Mel (aka Dr. Melissa Huang Liu - woohoo!!), and I wouldn't want people to be confused. And since she doesn't seem to harbor the same ridiculous aversion to being called "Dr. Mel", I'm going to let her have it.
Moving on......now that I have graduated, I am celebrating by entering the wild world of blogging! I really wanted to set up this blog to document my travels not that school is done, but that will have to wait for a bit. I'm sticking around Sinai to write my paper and finish up some things in the lab, but then I am really leaving! Even though I'm still here, I have vowed to have more fun, go home to CT more often, and really enjoy New York while I'm still here. So for now, my blog will be documenting my adventures locally...enjoy!
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Dr. Mel the Weatherman! HAHAHAHAHAHA.....
Anyways, I had a huge neuroses (sp?) with being called Mel growing up. Who wants to be compared to the big bald guy from Mel's Diner????
College got me over it since all my friends were too lazy to say my full name and started calling me "Mel". I accepted it. So yeah, just call me Dr. Mel now.... and it helps to not live in CT anymore. I don't have the weatherman haunting my life.
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