The Home Stretch

[drcuriosity]

In 48 hours, I'll have submitted my PhD thesis. Currently looking at just on 200 pages (though a fair chunk of those are appendices). It took too long to get here, with the rest of Life getting in the way in various incarnations, but I'm down to an intro, conclusion, and a little bit of polish.

Into the breach.

Comments

[slothphil.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[danjite.livejournal.com]

*Raised fist*

Good work!

[ashbet]

I'm so happy for you -- this has been a hard-earned milestone. Wishing you well in finalizing it, and in getting it approved!

*big cushy congratulatory Andi-hugs*

-- A <3

[drcuriosity]

Six paragraphs of Chapter 7's conclusion just came out in a rush over the last hour.

Time to leave the office, grab me a bus, potter through a few tweaks and robotic tasks in the evening, get some sleep, and write up the good version of Chapter 8 (final conclusions and future directions) in the morning. Introduction, abstract and a final round of proofing in the afternoon. (Writing is already pretty tight, but it never hurts to have a final read-through for spelling and grammar.)

Thursday night I'm sure will feel very surreal and otherworldy, as the thesis-shaped hole in my life makes itself evident, before slowly healing over in the months to come. It will be a time for after-care: keeping myself busy and engaged in something so that I don't just stop and get ill as my mind-body starts to work out it has time to be properly sick now.

Alongside the dogged determination to keep going whenever and however I got knocked down, making time for preventive maintenance is one of the important skills I've learned over the course of this doctorate. It won't end here.

[drcuriosity]

Many thanks! <3

One of these days, dear lady, you're going to get such a cuddling :-)

[ashbet]

*happy Muppet arms*

Yes, PLEASE!!

(I'd been actually just thinking, as I wrote it, that I hoped to give you one of those hugs in person someday!)

-- A :D

[ashbet]

I think this sounds like a well-informed and intelligent plan, sir.

<3!

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Congratulations in advance!

[thebluerose.livejournal.com]

Im just at the other end of my Post Grad Diploma documentation, have just submitted my research brief.

Congrats, its a big deal and wishing you the best of luck!

[smallmercies.livejournal.com]

Congrats.


You made a backup, yes....? :-o :-)

[drcuriosity]

Backups on an external hard drive, private git repo, work computer. Taking no fucking chances :-)

[drcuriosity]

As it happens, the solid state drive in my laptop chose to die last night too, freezing everything up so I had to power cycle the machine. I lost half a sentence, and some time.

Being cautiously pessimistic and backing up often may have meant not having a heart attack.

[funranium.livejournal.com]

High fives!

[darkmagess.livejournal.com]

Excellent news! A long time coming for sure.

*hugs*

I hope the world looks real rosy on the other side. :)

[smallmercies.livejournal.com]

A lot of people I've known that have finished have (effectively) find through grief cycles, interestingly enough. Well, interesting for me because I only get to watch. Hell, one of the universities here actually requires doctoral students to see a counselor for a few weeks after submitting/defending. Most odd. And yet not.

Anyway still: congrats again, Dr Curious. :-)

[smallmercies.livejournal.com]

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