I'm ABD

On Wednesday, I passed my oral preliminary exam - wahoo! I went and sat in a room with 4 faculty from my program, was asked a bunch of statistics questions for almost 2 hours, and then they said that they considered me qualified to work on my dissertation. This is also called being a doctoral candidate or ABD (all but dissertation).

Since graduate training varies a lot from program to program and I have received several questions on what all I have to do to finish this degree, I'll put the whole story here:
(i) master's thesis proposal (I did this at USU)
(ii) master's thesis defense (also at USU)
(iii) course work (a big number, I don't feel like recounting at the moment)
(iv) written preliminary (passed last week)
(v) oral preliminary (passed this week)
(vi) doctoral dissertation proposal (I hope to do by the end of the year)
(vii) doctoral dissertation defense (I hope to do sometime next year)