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livToday I formally committed myself, with a signature, no less, to a viva date: 9th May. I am quite incapable of imagining that my thesis will be done and printed and bound a month before that, but I guess it'll have to be.
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(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-18 04:39 pm (UTC)And good luck!
(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-22 02:34 pm (UTC)I think you may be right. I have been working faster since I set this deadline. Just... *whimper*, even so.
And good luck!
Thank you!
(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-18 05:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-22 02:57 pm (UTC)Thank you, my dear. This feels like a very alone thing to be doing, so knowing that I have people rooting for me does help. And I shall try not to get to the point of being all, aargh, leave me alone, I'm stressed! because I do need people really.
I am sure you will make it
It's definitely good to hear that. I simply can't picture myself finishing this thesis in time, but I can't really envisage not getting through it either.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-18 06:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-22 03:03 pm (UTC)Thank you! With all these people wishing me luck I ought to have plenty.
I know my MSc dissertation was much less major
Well, a PhD is bigger but then I've had over three years' training that you wouldn't have had as an MSc student, so it probably balances out.
but I never thought I'd make it but I did
Yes, I'm comforting myself that lots of other people have done things like this. And that almost every PhD student goes through a stage of thinking they're not going to make it, so I'm probably no different.
I'm sure you'll manage it.
Thanks. My fabled confidence / arrogance has evaporated, so I'm borrowing liberally from other people's confidence in me. It does help.
Just don't take on any replacement manatees... ;)
Um... *blush* But mentoring is fun! Seriously, I'm being good about lowering the priority I give to Support for the next few months. I'll see how it goes.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-18 09:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-18 09:44 pm (UTC)Secondly: a month? I'm not anticipating a viva for at least six of the blighters.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-19 10:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-19 05:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-19 05:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-22 03:16 pm (UTC)I'm feeling more scared than celebratory, but thank you for the enthusiasm anyway.
Secondly: a month? I'm not anticipating a viva for at least six of the blighters.
Ugh. That's a horrendous long time to have to wait.
The thing is, I have to give the university 3 months' notice of my 'intention to submit', which I've just started the procedures for doing. I could have waited until I'd absolutely finished and had the thesis there in front of me, but that seemed like a bad idea, given that I'm way behind schedule anyway. And I absolutely have to be completely finished by September or bad things will happen, so just taking my time over it and saying I'll be viva'd whenever it's done plus three months would be a dangerous strategy. Plus the whole not getting paid any more thing is motivating me to hurry.
So instead I'm declaring my 'intention' now, and contacting examiners and stuff. Examiners in science type subjects ask for the thesis a month ahead of viva (though obviously they need more notice than that to agree to do it). So I have effectively two months in which to finish it. This is scary, but I think less scary than thinking I might take years and probably fail because I'd taken too long without a good excuse.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-19 12:45 pm (UTC)The best of luck in either case.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-22 03:24 pm (UTC)Pretty much a combination of both is about apt. Thanks for the sympathetic thoughts though.
The best of luck in either case
Thank you. I need luck and I appreciate your wishing it.