I called the manuscript finished about a week before I actually officially filed it. That was the point where all of my advisors agreed that it was in good enough shape, that I didn’t need to rework the conclusion, and so on. That didn’t mean I was done, though. That just meant [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | 3 Comments »>This appears to actually be happening. I’m pinning down appointments for getting signature approvals on the manuscript, I picked up my robes yesterday, I’ve been getting logistical coordination emails from the department admin. I seem to actually be graduating.
Six years apparently isn’t that long for a doctorate, but it feels like forever. [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | 7 Comments »>One of the many problems with having so many writers as friends is that their language games aren’t as much fun when I play them. Case in point, the machine translation exercise that David and Ben were playing around with. I took a paragraph from my dissertation, ran it through a few Google [...]
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Posted in personal, writing and editing | 1 Comment »> Dissertation!
Originally uploaded by Susan Groppi.
I still need to get signatures from the professors on my committee, one of whom is out of town until the middle of next week, but still. Look at that!
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Posted in academic | 7 Comments »>I haven’t integrated my conclusion chapter into the full manuscript file, because it isn’t finished yet. And I know that I have some work to do on the fourth chapter, and I’m sure the people on my committee will have a lot of revision suggestions, and I know that the next few weeks are [...]
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Posted in academic | 9 Comments »>I continue to be a little disoriented by the fact that I’m almost done. I’ve got a dissertation checklist, a list of discrete tasks that need to be completed, some of them between now and the first of May, some of them between the first and nineteenth. (1 May is when I’m giving [...]
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Posted in academic, personal | No Comments »>Sorry for not posting–the dissertation and I are having some quality alone time. I hope to rejoin society soon, but cannot give real estimates.
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