[scoop] Ok, for once a Dutch title! MSc is too short as title, and Master of Science sounds way too flashy if I write it without abbreviating.. Plus doctorandus (the Dutch equivalent for MSc) implies that you still have to become a doctor, which leaves room for growth, I like that! And yes, this title is just as it implies: [/scoop]

From tomorrow on I finally have earned the right to title myself Ellen Tonkens, MSc, or drs. Ellen Tonkens! Oh the awesomeness! Not that I'll ever use it, except for on my CV, but still. Acknowledgment for all this hard work I've done over the past years :)

I was going to make another "it's finished" post or something of that sort, but since I already did that at the first AND the final version of my thesis, finishing the rest of the study just doesn't seem all that different. And besides, those "finishes" before made me realize nothing is ever really finished. You finish a part, another part starts, the growth never stops.

Even though it's a symbolical end of my study, and with that, the start of a whole new part of my life, it feels like everything is just getting started. And I don't feel like I'm going to stop learning at all! Just the idea alone of never learning again fills me with boredom. Imagine the development would stop here, eww! But MSc does mean I finally have my pass to a decent income and finding a job that really suits me! Ooooh yay! :D

So here's to finishing things, to new beginnings, and that we may never stop growing! לחיים!