I remember December of 1988 pretty well. I was graduating from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor’s degree. The doctoral candidates were getting ready to file across the stage. Dr. Alfred Hurley was speaking to the group and and the end he said, “Welcome to the world of scholarly thinkers.” I had a thought about that then… what have I been doing? Dr. Hurley had obviously never taken Dr. Lott’s anatomy or physiology class!
Fast forward to August of 1993. I was graduating from the University of North Texas with a Master’s Degree. As the doctoral candidates were preparing to file across the stage, Dr. Alfred Hurley was speaking to them and said, “Welcome to the world of scholarly thinkers.” Again, I wondered… what have I been doing? Dr. Hurley hadn’t been in my cardiovascular exercise physiology class.
Fast forward to today. I started a residency for my doctorate. I’m starting to understand what Dr. Hurley was speaking about on both of those occasions. This program in it’s design is very rigorous. The drop out rate for most doctoral programs is around 50%. My group of five, we are committed to finishing this work in three years.
Welcome to the world of scholarly thinkers… kinda scary.
My cohort…
Greg Bicknell (me)
Angie Bicknell (my beautiful and extremely intelligent wife)
Phyllis Scott
Sharon Brodin
Cheryl Schwaebler
Pencil in February 2011 for our commencement exercises… only about 1096 days… done before you know it.
