No, I haven’t suddenly become a Christian or anything – but I found out today that my PhD was confirmed. It’s been a bit of a nerve-wracking week. I had to give a 25 minute presentation to the department on my topic. Somehow giving a talk to friends and colleagues is a very scary prospect, probably because I really do care what they think – if it was a bunch of strangers, I don’t think I’d care so much. But amazingly enough, it all went fine. Then today, I had to face a committee to talk about my progress to date (I’m about half way through). It was actually tremendously useful to get some different points of view about approaches I could take. Whew! Now I can actually sit back and relax for five seconds – the last three weeks have been crazy.
May 2, 2008...10:45 pm
Confirmed
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May 3, 2008 at 6:49 pm
That’s fantastic. And halfway through already… you work fast!
May 3, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Half way through the allocated time…unfortunately not half written…!!! I guess that’s the way of PhDs – it should all fall into place at the end? Shouldn’t it?! (humour me, please).
May 4, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Congrats!
May 4, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Well done!
May 5, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Thank you!