Master Char

I am very very excited to announce that yesterday at exactly 4:53pm I successfully defended my Masters degree. The journey to this end point was not always easy, it was fraught with so much self doubt and stress...was it worth it in the end? I think so. Through the course of this degree, I learned a great deal about health but I more importantly I learned about my own capabilities. I am not as dumb as I think I am....I think I am actually kind of smart and certainly hard working. Okay, enough of tooting my own horn.

My defense went well. I was really nervous and at times I think my mouth had a mind of its own. I would say something but my brain did not really register what I had just said. The questions were tough and not what I was expecting. A debate about the global health and if working with refugees and immigrants in Canada constitutes doing global health, or what kind of research would I design to get more data on refugees, how do I reconcile the difference between the use of localized services and the disjoint in federal legislation.

Thank goodness for Professor Crush Pants...

Yippie!!!! Charlene M.W. Phung M.Sc.