DONE!
Well, I’m defending my dissertation in two days. I’m a nervous wreck, but I’m friggin’ done! Yay for me!
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Faustus in limbo...
Good luck!
I know the feeling (I had it on my Masters defence, and again on my proposal defence); each time I was afraid I may mess it up, and it made me nervous in the days before. Surprisingly[?!], both times everything went rather smoothly on the day of defence (so smoothly, in fact, that I somehow wonder whether I have defeneded or not).
The people on my committee were specially friendly and positive. I guess part of my worries was that they may criticize me too much, but instead they encouraged me on my work and gave me some useful advice :)
You’ll do fine on the day, I’m sure. And yes, yay for you :) How does it feel to be done, by the way?
Done!
Well, it feels kind of surreal. As you said, I’m kind of weary of them finding things I did not see or asking me questions (mostly about statistics) that I won’t be able to respond. But as you said, they may give me really useful advice (they actually did in the proposal stage). So I’m trying to be positive, I’m getting all my powerpoint notes together and I’m trying not to get stressed. Thanks for the good wishes!
