Last Wednesday, October 25th, marked they day that all the work that I have put in to writing my area paper gave its fruit. After a successful presentation (more about that later) and defense, my committee agreed that I could keep on working what I proposed. This is a big relief because the amount of stress that was associated with the process was very high and I was working on this constantly for quite a while. I have to relax a bit now, and concentrate on finishing the work that I proposed to do. I will also start looking for a job as soon as possible.
Now, as my adviser humorously put it right after the defense, the bad news is, I have to do it now.
[tags] phd, personal[/tags]
Congratulations!!! I am very happy….
BTW, I like the new appearance of your blog.
Cheers,
Hande
Nice news, congratulations Turker!!
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