Submitted my PhD today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fab Foodie]

Lol... if I told you what the title was... (is.. flippin' heck, I'm talking in past tense already!) I'd lose my anonymity
Ah well... PARTY!!!!

You are Belle du Jour AICMFP!

 

[ASC1951]

I felt worried she was going to lose them, she was that lackadaisical.

You may laugh - a friend of mine abandoned his Ph D after leaving his only copy, ready to submit, on a train and never getting it back.

You do have a back up copy? Don't you?

 

[HJ]

Congratulations

Start saving now for the cost of binding your final finished thesis, now. You'll be surprised how many people think they should get a hard bound copy, which you then have to pay for...

 

[Ghost Donkey]

Mrs D had more than a few typos to worry about the first time she tried printing her thesis on her own printer. It was my fault for, ahem, distracting her and she didn't notice the printer had gone all wrong and jammed up good and proper. It was a lot of pages to print and we needed to do something to pass the time She got minor corrections after her viva and left in tears. I did tell her it was better than major corrections or failure but that didn't help.

 

[User169]

Originally, I gather, it was a way of making sure that the person named had actually written the thing - hence 'viva' - meeting the living person.

It's when you 'defend' your thesis to a panel of examiners. They ask you questions on it and so on. Best case scenario, they're already happy you've gone about it all correctly and produced the best work you can, and pass you (even better when they tell you at the start). Worst case, they think the whole thing needs redoing. In between, varying degrees of questioning/terror.

I'm really quite glad I won't be going through it now.

Congratulations LR, that's good going. Now, relax!

The curious thing about British vivas is that they are private. Most "continental" universities open vivas to the public, so your family/friends/colleagues pitch up too!

 

[User169]

I went to party after a PhD viva which finished somewhat abruptly when one of the post-docs slashed the external examiner across the throat with a razor blade!

 

[User169]

It was pretty unbelieveable - after that, booze was banned from the dept. It turned out that the post-doc in question had also managed to get booze banned at her previous department (for surfing on top of the elevators or some other such japery)!

 

[Andy in Sig]

And the jail sentence was ...?

 

[User169]

And the jail sentence was ...?

Fortunately, it all got chalked up to "over-exuberance". It was only a nick really, although it did bleed quite impressively.