From Master's Degree to Doctoral Program

[LeAnn]

So I love you guys and I thought I would share my wonderful news!

Some of you already know, but I am working on a Master's degree in experimental psychological research with a focus in aging.
Well, 1 year ago I started a thesis that was looking for a correlation between death anxiety and intentions for plastic surgery in women age 50 who had already completed plastic surgery. (BTW, the death anxiety scale does not CAUSE death anxiety, it is just used to measure your pre-existing anxieties, if any)
I worked with a local plastic surgeon getting the wording and the questions just right, got it through the committee, and through the Institutional Review Board (protects people so that our questions don't cause them undue harm).

However, when I went to take it to the other surgeons who agreed to participate, they kept backing out. Leaving me to wonder if it would even be possible to collect data.

SO, I started a second similar but not the same thesis project. (once again had to go through all channels) This one looking at Female college students intentions for plastic surgery, again with the correlation of death anxiety, regardless of their age or if they had surgery (basically a sample of convenience). So after running over 100 participants I finally got an email from the first surgeon who has been working with me but MIA for almost 9 months.
He has collected enough data for me that I am able to complete that first study!!!
YAY!!!
SO this means I will be the first person in my school's program's history to successfully complete two thesis projects for their master's degree.

I am really hoping that 1. this will show my determination, 2. will get published, and ultimately catch the eye of a PhD school so they will pay for me to attend.

I just really really wanted to share.