I Might Be a Doctor, Too
Good news!
On Monday I received a piece of mail inviting me to my scheduled appointment with an "Expert Committee (
va'adat mumhim) for Doctorates from Abroad." The letter is 1.5 sentences long and simply notifies me of the date, time, address of the meeting, and to bring ID.
The meeting is not tomorrow, which I would not put past these clowns. Instead it is in less than two weeks. Also, it will totally eat up the day, b.c it is scheduled for late morning in
Petah Tikvah, a city northeast of Tel Aviv (center of the country). I asked my boss to let the day count as professional development, b.c I really don't want to waste a vacation day on this mandatory baloney. This is the meeting where I get to re-defend my dissertation before a group that wishes it were my disseration committee. I wonder if they will insist that I collect more data, re-analyze something, or do something else ridiculous for a study that is long-completed. I have some really old entries about the hoops they made me jump through to get to this point, more than two years after the process started.
So, feel free to contact me after 13:00 local time on 11 November to ask if the meeting went well. A happy ending would mean that 2+ years post-aliyah I am a licensed psychologist with a recognized PhD. This bureaucracy is taking nearly as long as completing grad school itself.
Or, you can wait for the blog entry afterwards. This should definitely be a blog-worthy event.
****************************************
******
Get updates of my blog entries! Subscribe to
efratti-subscribe@yahoogroups.com 
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
efratti's journal