Something has changed. Last year when I told people which program I was in most people just drew a blank: They had never heard of our program. This year people might not know a lot about our program, but they seem to have at least heard of it. Last week when I slipped into the Student Union office to ask about volunteering I was asked if I was in the undergrad program or the grad program. Today I was chatting with someone else from the SU and I was again asked which program I am in, and when I told her she called our program “the mystery program”. And she asked me how classes were going and I told her I am quite worried because all the courses this semester are basically “do your thesis”, “one way to help you do your thesis”, and “another way to help you do your thesis”. (“But you are just second year. Are you sure you’re not third year?”) Oh, and I told her we don’t actually call it a thesis. But what answer did I get? “That’s a thesis. It takes a whole year to do, right?” People still aren’t aware this is a two-year program, or why it’s a two-year program for that matter. But our program has graduated from being the unknown program to “the mystery program”: That is an improvement.