This week I’m getting to the pointy end of my degree, so to speak. On Thursday I will have my very last seminars and SwotVac (Swot Vacation) begins!! Though it may seem a little premature when I haven’t actually received my final results, it is apparently time to order my bat cape/academic dress for graduation…..eeek!
The great Kindle versus Books debate
Now the end is in sight all former complaints, whingeing and procrastination, regarding study, have mysteriously vanished and I’m left with the undeniable truth that I actually want to put myself through more of this torture. I know, it’s amazing after last semesters horrendous five courses and all of those bloody books!! But I’m not done yet, that is for sure, and plans for an Honours thesis are bubbling along nicely to take me through the summer break until I return to campus in 2013, Post-Grad, oozing superiority and swaggering under the weight of my hefty brain. I’ll try not to let it go to my head too much though, my officially small head.
The epitome of the “Scholarly Woman”, how could I resist this image? Please note though, I will not be wearing sensible shoes, 3,500 denier stockings, nor will I have a quaint pudding bowl hair do, demure posture or a head quite as gigantic as this apparent brainiac. After much careful measuring, which has been independently verified by the resident engineering husband, it would appear that my head is indeed 52 cm, and THAT my friends is THE smallest size available in the Trencher. Non! I will not be wearing a french dinner plate on my head, don’t be so ridiculous, that is what it’s called on the academic dress hire web site I assure you…..I always thought it was called a Mortar Board??!
So it’s official; friends who quite seriously advise me to look in the children’s section for a snorkel mask, hairdressers who inform me that, “yes it doesn’t take quite as long to cut your hair but you’re not having children’s rates” and persons who shall not be named but claimed that my head was the same size as their three-year old, appear to be totally on the money. I have the smallest head you can fit a degree into…..apparently. Not that I go around fixating about my head size, and to be honest it’s only when I try on hats that I even notice that it’s not exactly average, medium, large or even ‘small’ sized on the standard Richter scale of head measurements, if there is such a thing. However, if there is actually a Trencher available in a size 52 cm that surely denotes that I can’t be the only one, unless they really have started giving out degrees to three-year olds.
On the 7th December 2012 I will be the first person in my Mothers family to not only go to University, but actually be a ‘scholarly woman’ with a degree, and I’m pretty darn proud of that even if my head is teeny tiny 
(P.S you may have noticed I’ve added a Post-a badge in my side bar, I did consider the Post-A-Day, but hell, we all know I ain’t gonna manage that!!)
It took me about 14 years to get my degree…not that my head was to small – more that it was to full of flaws, ideas and dreams, which I tried to all follow up during studying …
Well – last not least probably the fact German universities do not pester their students with study fees did help a lot. When you study for free, it does set you free quite a bit…
I try not to think too much about my HECS debt! It took me about 23 years to get around to actually doing my degree but I’m fortunately able to do it full time so it’s actually gone pretty quickly. Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
Congratulations!! I was the first woman in my family to go to college and get a degree too. Good for you!
Thank you so much!! but do you beat me in head size dear Madam Weebles?!
My head is pretty average size, I think, but I have so much hair that it ends up adding more size to a hat!
That is so unfair! I don’t even have decent hair filler, mine is your flat thin variety and quite shiny, so unless a hat is small enough to clamp on it just slides around or off….there is no margin of error in hat purchase for me. Maybe I can sew velcro to a few strands of it or go back to my 1980′s perm?
I am so happy to learn I am not the only one with a tiny head. My husband and kids tease me all the time. It doesn’t seem small to me until I see a photo of me with other people. That’s why I have to keep my long hair. Big hair gives the illusion of a bigger head.
Congrats on your graduation! Very exciting, and you should be proud of yourself. Having recently obtained a master’s degree, I know that course work is not easy. Good luck with the next phase.
Are you balancing that trilby in your Gravatar photo Carrie?!! back in the UK I just kind of accepted that I was ‘not a hat person’ but in Queensland when it’s mega hot and the UV ratings are so high it becomes pretty essential to find something to cover not just my head but the top of my ears (if they get sunburnt it is mega painful!!)
Haha. Yes, surprisingly, that hat fits me, but I never actually wear hats. That one was strictly for the Gravatar.
Congratulations… there’s a saying that goes something like it’s not the size of the man in the fight it’s the size of the fight in the man… I guess it applies just as well to women, heads and brains
We should try and put our heads together and come up with a female equivalent to this saying!
Congratulations on finishing your degree! Thanks for wandering over to my blog today, because it led me to yours. The title of this post made me laugh out loud, as my head is also very small (although filled with multiple degrees). I feel like I need to measure it and compare it to yours.
I should really have done a before and after measurement just to see if I’d managed to expand it at all after three years of study! I have a Tardis brain, it has to be bigger on the inside somehow?!
My theory is that women have smaller heads but use their brains to greater capacity.
ciao! congratulations. keep your insides big. it’s the quality not the quantity.
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Thank you kindly, I shall endeavour to keep my insides Tardis like at all times!! P.S love all the pretty things on your blog!
I can’t claim to be 52cm ( I think the degus are that big) but I am only 57 cm and my wife is bigger (Not sure what you’ll do with that one Lisa) so my top hats are safe. You’re certainly cramming everything into that space though aren’t you. Well done, it’s never too late and I hope others will feel more encouraged now. I bet the family are so proud.
I look forward to seeing the pictures of you in trencher and gown/. Hugs
By that reckoning your impressive head gear would be resting on my chin…..or possibly my knees. Hugs back at you and your lovely wife x