Does anyone know what a ‘post doc’ is? I’d never thought about it until New Year’s Eve when the following conversation flowed around our table (performing a slow and quiet interpretive dance):

D: “…blablabla…working on their post doc.”
Maha: “What is that, anyway?”
D: “What?”
Maha: “A ‘post doc’?”
D: “Something to do with their PhD?”
P: “Isn’t it work done post your doctorate?”

(silence)

Maha: “Do they get letters?”

(silence)

Maha: “You know, letters. Like, with their name? Like an ‘M.A.’ or a ‘Dr’?”
P: “I don’t think so, Maha…”
Maha: “Oh. Well. That sort of sucks; They really should consider at least giving them one extra letter. And if not, then they should make it a PhD2.”

So…uhm…any of you know what a post doc amounts to? (I’m too floppy to Wiki as I’ve just come home from yoga.)

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