I defended my PhD today!

[Lucky Luciano]

I am in a really good mood and even b*sh cannot ruin my day!
It will be party time in a few hours....

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. cool

what was you phd in?

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Algebraic geometry

I never knew how difficult mathematics would become!

[bigwillq]

6. That sounds really difficult

I could only imagine how hard it was. Way to go!

[JVS]

8. What school?

[Lucky Luciano]

12. UCLA

Advisor - Alexander Merkurjev - the guy is a top notch genius!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Oooooo a math geek

I am a frustated math geek. I earn my living making software but I wish I could do so dreaming up weird things like modular forms or number theory.

I'm green with envy. Congratulations!

[Lucky Luciano]

16. Ahhh my roommate does number theory

so he knows a bit about modular forms etc.

I see you are from Rio...I was in your neck of the woods in February. A good time - I wanted to go to Salvador, but domestic air travel in Brazil is too damn expesnive!

After Carnaval was over, I went to a club called Baranetti (sp?) in Ipanema. I will tell you that I have never seen so many beautiful women in one room in my entire life! I had a little bit too much fun that night! I love your country!

[ikojo]

19. I am so in awe of those who are good at math.

It is something I would like to have been good at.

Congrats on your PhD!!!!!

[Throckmorton]

23. Ok smart math geek guy,

Solve this one for me.

It takes a man and a half, a day and a half, to build a car and a half. So, given the above, how long does it take an elephant with a wooden leg to kick a hole in a pickle?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

25. Congratulations

Congratulations!!!! I'm a math lover too. I'd love to go back to school for a master's and maybe even a doctorate, but I don't have enough money to do it right now.

-Crystal

[salin]

27. Many, many, many congratulations

huge deal... huge accomplishment! :party:

[CatWoman]

2. did you make them an offer

they couldn't refuse?

:D

[bigwillq]

3. Congrats

I would be partying too.

BTW, I love your screen name!

[Lucky Luciano]

7. Thx

I started to use the mafia theme on free republic (before I discovered this site).

They banned me as:

Luciano the Lucky (Someone else had Lucky Luciano)
Meyer Lansky
Joe Bonanno
The Dapper Don
The Dapper Don II
Bugs Moran
Bugsy Siegall
Dutch Schultz

and last but not least.....

Lucifer Himself :evilgrin:

You could probably find some of my posts there (that have not been completely removed) by searching for "Zot!"

[bigwillq]

15. Yo, that's cool as shit

I like the mafia theme and I'm glad you went over to free repug and harassed them. I never visit that place, too many idiots.

[Lucky Luciano]

17. Well it is good to visit FR

because as another mafia adage goes, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."

There is a lot of wisdom in that statement.

[bigwillq]

18. That's true but I did visit once and these people's views are so

fucked up. I mean here at DU, we do our share of Shrub bashing, but there is soooo much more to this site than that.

The time I did visit FR, all it did was bash Kerry and the DEMS. I don't want to read that shit. But that's all they have because they all know how fucked up they made this country so they have nothing better to offer b/c anything they say they know they are wrong.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. What was your best technique?

Straight punch? Ridge hand? Front kick? Roundhouse kick? ;-)

[mike_c]

9. party on!

Took me a couple of days to recover. If you're still capable of reading this, you're slacking. You don't need those brain cells anymore. Kill them now.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. CONGRATULATIONS!

I know how good it feels to get that off your back...
Do you have extensive edits to go through yet?

[Lucky Luciano]

14. no

it is completely done. I will submit the results to a journal. For that I should remove some of the background information of the thesis, but overall, as far as school goes, I am done.

[northofdenali]

11. Way to go, Lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats! :toast::party::toast:

Party on!

[cally]

20. Congrats!!

I'm assuming it went well from your post, Dr. Lucky.

[Lucky Luciano]

21. It went perfectly.

I am very happy....T minus one hour to celebration time!

[Donkeyboy75]

22. Ah, I'm jealous. Congrats!

How long did it take? I'm 5 1/2 years through my program...should be out in two months!

[Lucky Luciano]

24. Took the same amount of time

I could have done it sooner if I didn't have so many distractions...
Like traveling to 35 countries...LA has beautiful women of all sorts...I took a LOA (including the LOA - 7 years) to be a corporate whore for a little bit and to trade stocks, but had to go back to school after two years or I would not be allowed to finish my degree. It was tough coming back and readjusting to being a student because I got used to a more luxurious lifestyle. It all worked out in the end! I had some amazing experiences by taking my time! I hope you did too! What is your field?

[Doctor_J]

30. I will escape in 4-1/2 yrs while working

ODE goes more quickly than other specialties.

[Ramsey]

26. Mucho Congrats

I abandoned my PhD. I already have one graduate degree, I couldn't slog through a second one! I had a two-year temporary insanity when I thought I could.

It is an amazing accomplishment. And it's damn hard! So... Party hard!!

[kixot]

28. I'm green with envy.

I'm 28, working tech support in a web hosting company, and working on going back to finish my B.S. in maths and could only DREAM of working up to a PhD. I'm so happy for you. I hope I can get there someday ...

[Doctor_J]

29. Congrats

mine is scheduled for November. I study Differential Equations.