A Real Doctor
Yesterday, I received my cap, gown, tassels, and stole thingy for graduation. I tried them on and realized that I look like a chess piece in the doctorate hat! Also, the stole thingy is blowing my mind. I can’t figure out how the damn thing is supposed to fit on my body. I even googled images of other people wearing it, and had two of my (non-medical) friends try to figure it out. I have this strange feeling that it’s perhaps the last test that I have to take before I become a real doctor. If I can figure out the stole, I have what it takes to be a doctor. If not, well, then maybe I shouldn’t have gone to med school!
Let’s hope that I figure it out.
Also, I have officially graduated in the eyes of my medical school. They sent me an email today notifying me and letting me know that my diploma will be mailed shortly.
Here is the end of the email:
Dear Dr. Campbell,
Congratulations on your completion of medical school at RUSM and good luck in your future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Office of the Registrar
Ross University
Pretty cool, hey?!
My name is Kendra and I am a newly minted doctor about to begin my residency in Psychiatry at 
Ah, that “stole thingy”, the envy of all doctoral students. To help out your searches, it is called a doctoral hood. I found a short youtube clip that briefly shows how its worn, so hopefully it helps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fry4e21uNzo
Congrats Dr. Campbell! You look great in the gown! I hope to wear one someday. Go get some more oysters!
It is indeed a hood, and it comes from the first universities during the middle ages when students and professors needed them for warmth. And because the undergraduates sat at the back of the hall, they needed the fur on the hood (which is why undergrad hoods traditionally have fur on them). According to Dorothy Sayers (Gaudy Night), one side of the hood should be worn normally, and the other one twisted and pinned to show the colours underneath. Have fun!
SOOOO GREATTTTTTTTTTTT CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!
I am more than beyond HAPPY for you. As I read the last part of the email from Ross to you..tears of joy came done. I can’t WAIT for them to call me Dr. too! Best of luck with everything Dr. Campbell and I am so looking forward to following you on your residency journey!!!!
Beautiful!!! Love that big smile, Dr. Campbell, it goes so nicely with the outfit
The hat is awesome! Makes you look like a dork which is so far from your truth….
I love it that you’ve never conformed with the hair the whole time going through md indoctrination.
congratualtions, you are my hero! grins ear to ear….
by the way, I forgot to mention you look like a kid who got caught with their hand in the cookie jar!
Congratulations on a job well done!
Congratulations, looks great, wear your three bars with pride – you earned them!
Wow, you look good as a three striper. Congratulations Dr. Kendra
Congratulations from all of your friends on Moo Cow Trail.
sniff..sniff..you’re making me cry!!! I wish I could be there to cheer you on at your graduation ceremony! But then again, I am a loud Campbell girl, so if I yell really loudly from out here, a good set of ears might pick it up in NYC next month????