Fri 28 Apr 2006
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Posted by Erin under Daily Life
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Dissertation Submitted to committee: check
Dissertation Successfully defended: check
All edits and final changes made: check
Advisor signed off: check
Paperwork submitted and inexplicable $115 paid to submit it:
FROM: Editor, UMI Dissertations
TO: G
SUBJECT: “Causal Inference with Group-Based Trajectories and Propensity Score Matching: Is High School Dropout a Turning Point?” has been accepted
Dear G,
Congratulations. Your submission has cleared all of the
necessary checks and will soon be delivered to UMI. If you
have questions in the future about the status of any orders
for printed copies or the publication status of your
manuscript, please contact …
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
CHECKMATE.

Congratulations Gary! Enjoy a well-earned nap.
At this point, they should be paying YOU $115.
No matter…
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations, Mister Doctor!!!
Wahooo!!
And Tara raises a good point. Shall we now refer to him as ‘The Doctor’, or ‘Mister Doctor’, or ‘Doctor Mister’, ‘Doctor G’, or — my favorite– simply ‘G’?
Congratulations! I’d be interested in your conclusions. Jason & I were just talking about the horrifying high school drop out rates.
Thank you thank you. Mike, you should just go with whatever feels right. Julie, we should discuss in person sometime soon.