Tuesday, September 22, 2009

That's Doctoral Candidate Ridge to you...

Excellent News!!
Claron is officially a doctoral candidate. He passed his PhD Candidacy exam (also known as orals). He did a great job. We are very proud of him. Here is a picture of him in action (well practicing anyway).

Being the wife of a pre-doctoral candidate can be difficult and stressful. To diffuse this stress, I baked, and I contributed the goods to the PhD Candidacy Exam Committee. Here is the evidence:

Water, Lemons, Limes, Grapes, Strawberries, Blueberries, Carrots, Ranch, Cheese, Crackers, Oatmeal Cinnamon Chip Cookies, Brownie Buttons with Toffee Pieces, Nutella Cupcakes

I am so proud of my husband. The only down side is that we are closer to leaving Santa Barbara.

4 comments:

Amanda said...

Congrats to Claron!

Living in a college town (Notre Dame is quite close) and having many graduate students go to our church, this scenario seems quite common!

We've had some friends just graduate this spring and move away for a job. :(

Lin said...

Congrats to him!

jamie hixon said...

Hey, congrats!!!
That is wonderful, but I am not surprised. Dan keeps wishing you all were around so that he could get Claron's opinion on various things. We miss you guys, but we aren't too sad we moved because we realize that it is just a matter of time before all the cool people in SB move away.

That food looks GOOD. Bribe much? ;-)

Liz Adams said...

WOW! Congrats! What's next and when?