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kaberett BA MSci

(2) this is hilarious and I want one

(3) *thud*

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From:

alexseanchai

Congratulations!

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untonuggan

congratumalations! \o/

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oyceter

EEEEEEEEEE congratulations!!!!!

From:

sorrillia

Congratulations!

And good luck with the PhD! That is one additional upside to going to Imperial College instead of Caltech for your PhD. Caltech's PhD robes are much plainer and, well, more boring. (Although I do think they look classy, at least.)

Also, since that mentions different robes for DSci and PhD: do those actually exist as distinct degrees in the UK? If so, what's the difference? (MIT apparently lets you pick PhD or DSci, but as far as I can tell the difference is just the name, it doesn't mean anything different.)

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liv

DSci is very rare in the UK. It's a degree that gets awarded to recognize a substantial contribution to the scientific field, not just following a normal post-grad course. Whereas an honorary degree is basically just a way a university can say, yay, we think this person is great, a DSci actually recognizes specific, outstanding achievements.

I think in the old days a DSci used to be awarded to people who weren't in traditional academia, but did enough original research kind of on their own that it was considered equivalent to a PhD. (Like Francis Crick, he never got round to doing his PhD but then he went and discovered the structure of DNA so obviously that's at least as good as a few years working as some professor's lab monkey and writing a thesis.) But nowadays you almost never get anyone doing that level of research without doing a PhD first, because research is too credentialist, you'd never get a job or get published without, so a DSci has become an exceptional honour.