The good news: I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation last Thursday. The bad news: I have not blogged for over a week now. My apologies for the long hiatus but please watch for new material very soon...
- Log in to post comments
More like this
Three papers, an introductory chapter and some broad conclusions. Those are the ingredients of a Ph.D. dissertation in it's simplest form.
That recipe doesn't tell you anything about all the blood, sweat, tears, and sleepless nights that go into those papers. It doesn't mention how your personal…
I was digging through some of my old blog posts and had almost totally forgot about this artwork I commissioned for the blog when I first started back on blogger. Check it out and then I'll fill you in on what I've been up to and why I've been so sparse over the last many months.
I stopped…
ScienceWoman has a post about plans and publications that opens with a comment about what makes a dissertation that struck me as odd:
Three papers, an introductory chapter and some broad conclusions. Those are the ingredients of a Ph.D. dissertation in it's simplest form.
[...]My first PhD paper…
Where we left off in part 1: In my fifth (and last) year of funding in my philosophy Ph.D. program, staring down 30, trying to finish a dissertation, and bracing myself for the rigors of the academic job market, I said to myself, "How could having a baby make things noticably more difficult?"
Then…
Congratulations. Now you can (and should!) prepare to change the "Ph.D. candidate ..." line in the brief note below your picture.
Congratulations on the defense!!!!!
Congratulations!! Does this mean I get to refer to you as Dr. Jacquet?
w00t! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!
Dr. Jacquet, congratulations!
Congrats
Outstanding news. Congratulations.
Now get back to work meeting our needs for crunchy, deep-dish blogalicious goodness. Feed us Seamo ... er... (very soon to be official) Dr.Jacquet.
Congratulations! I only hope that I can do so well when I'm in the same position in a couple of years.