Good afternoon

@LilirWyddfa In the US, a dissertation is done for a PhD. A thesis is required for a Masters, and passing your course work and finals are all that is required to get a bachelor of Art or Science

@helenS Maybe it's just this business of using different names in different countries. I am in Wales. I walk on pavements. Boys wear trousers. I write a dissertation in my Third Year of college.

@TexChik Thank you. I thought maybe it has been a difference of language. We speak English but American English and British English are increasingly divergent just as the tectonic plates are pulling us apart. One day the two languages will be on the foreign language curriculum.
To explain. I started my Access course in 2017. In my Art School. In 2018 I started my degree. And now I am Third Year. In Access and Years 1 and 2 they call them essays. Now in Third Year it's called Dissertation or as we call it Diss!

I don't know how to say in English.

@LilirWyddfa I understand. Well, google translate helped a lot lol - to step in the same place as your direct ancestors is an awesome thought.

@firefall It so is. I can tread on tiles a tiler made in 12 something!

@firefall I love cooking too. Amser cneifio, dyna beth rwy'n ei wneud!

@LilirWyddfa I can imagine - you have shearing gangs needing to be fed in enormous quantities? (thats the NZ tradition, specialist groups that move farm to farm)

@firefall Yes. It used to be a fi and fy chwaer sy wedi wneud e. But nz we havent heard from them. It doesnt happen any more.

@Platinum Thank you. And Happy New Year to you. Platinum is one metal we can't work with in college. It's beautiful but it needs acetylene torches to cut it and it's too dangerous for us kids to use. We still use gas torches and pickling fluids and acids for etching. And now I am Third Year I can use all those unsupervised! But platinum is a no no.