Thesis done

[michiexile]

My doctoral thesis just got mailed to the university press. I'll go there myself on Monday to pick out cover design and talk through the delivery with them.

Holy ****. I'm done.

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[fluffboll.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! *Hugs*

[mnenyver.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I can't imagine the amount of time and work you must have put into this. This is an incredible milestone. I wish you all the best with the review. :)

[michiexile]

Y'know, that's one of the seriously scary bits. I started my PhD studies about 22 months ago.

And I started this thesis subject about 16 months ago.

I can't believe I got it done so Damn Quickly.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Many dancing rodents!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Whoo! Wheeeeeee!

Congratulations!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

*downloads dissertation*

*sees dedication*

*eyes get very, very big*

Great minds...? I think we do. I know what you mean.

[michiexile]

There is that.

There is also that you let me read your thesis just about the time when I was sitting with a blank .tex file and thinking about where to start.

And seriously, reading your dedication reminded me of whom I have to thank for being where I am today.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

*big blush* You honor me.

And congratulations again. I have to say that I like the language in your dissertation more than mine---it reads much easier. (Now if I could understand all the words... ;-) ).

[michiexile]

Thank you.

I have had quite a bit of help with the language (apart from my own 1337 skillz accumulated over the years) - my advisor is from the UK, did his PhD at Cambridge, and has had a lot of language-cleanup-comments in the last few rereads.

And besides, I subscribe to John Baez' school of Mathematics As Stories - and have tried to Tell The Story of How To Compute A-infinity Structures. It helps that I aim the dissertation at two different crowds of mathematician, neither of which knows all too much about the other field...

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry I wasn't able to help more with your thesis - job applications, and the juggling convention, and my own thesis, and N other things intervened :-(

[rkaj.livejournal.com]

WTF? Isn't that supposed to take four - five years? Or often, more like eight to fifteen ...?

Congratulations!

[michiexile]

A German PhD is supposed to take something like 2 years fulltime + epsilon, for largish epsilon.

I still am DAMNED quick even by German measures.

Eight to fifteen starts describing the number of months I spend on my research and writing up.... (really more like 15-16, but still)

[peura.livejournal.com]

That depends on what you've done before the PhD studies, and what you do meanwhile. The PhD thesis itself takes about two years in Sweden too, including the research for it and some time for teaching and such. The first two years of a customary four year PhD programme in Sweden consist of the Lic thesis, which is a separate project from the PhD thesis (even though they're usually on the same subject).

Those who spend eight or fifteen years do a lot of fluff on the side, like working.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

US PhDs are a lot longer than anyone else's, AFAICT. UK PhDs are 3-4 years, and you have to submit something by the end of four years - a friend of mine just submitted hers on (4yrs - 1 day).

[peura.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :-) It would be interesting to see your thesis once it's printed, even though I probably will understand even less of it than I did of the PhD thesis my second cousin wrote (his thesis was on the properties of some commonly grown variety of fir, from an industrial perspective).

[darnia.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[awahlbom.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Damn you! Well done! :-)

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's a good feeling to have the thesis done...