I am not yet Dr. Lem Usita.  I’m working on it.  In fact, I worked on it all day.  I’ve worked on it for years.

I have never been motivated by one day being called Dr.  In fact, when I get it, I will not make anyone call me that.  I’m probably not even going to change any of my profiles to reflect that I’ve finished.  It’ll purely be a professional thing applied only to professional publications and my airline ticket.

I have already benefited from my doctoral studies, but I cannot wait to be done.  Not so much because then you can call me Dr., but because I will no longer have “student” as my identity.