I sent a chapter to my co-adviser, the money man, today! I thought this would be a good time to post an update of my progress.
My primary adviser has, in his inbox, my Introduction Chapter (1) and Chapter 4. He also has Chapter 5, which the other coauthor for that manuscript is reviewing.
The first part of Chapter 2 is submitted to a journal.
Chapter 6 is the one I sent to my co-adviser, as stated above.
I have a huge appendix that I've formatted and finished.
This only leaves, the second part of Chapter 2 and all of Chapter 3. Plus of course the abstract and conclusions and all the stupid formatting of the tables and figures and TOC, ect.
I'm pretty confident I can finish the second part of Chapter 2 by the end of the month. I initially though by the 23rd but it includes working in a program I'm not familiar with to do some statical analysis that all the papers I read on this subject tend to do. So to be realistic I'll hope to finish it by the 31st. My mom and sister are here from the 25-29 (four full days) so I'm not sure how much work will get done that week anyway-hopefully some.
A technician at my university was suppose to analyze the last of my samples on wed. but he hasn't sent me the data yet. This is for Chapter 3. I will re-visit that chapter in April. A lot of it has been written but I'm curious about these last samples so a full analysis of the data isn't complete yet. I'm hoping it will take less than two weeks to finish that Chapter.
I fly to dissertation town on April 10th. Hopefully all I've mentioned above will be completed by then. This visit is for a conference there on April 12th, my adviser puts it together. I don't think I'll need much preparation for the talk, although I could get a poster for my topic which might take longer to prepare.
My university has a policy that one must file a defense date 6 weeks in advance. When I meet with my adviser on Tuesday I'm going to suggest we set up this paperwork so I can defend on May 1st. My dept. secretary said it's really easy to change the date once the paperwork is finished, but if I don't submit something by the end of this week I won't have enough time to defend and give myself the week or two needed to make changes and meet the May 20th deadline to submit my thesis.
I figure I can't discuss a date with my committee until I give them my dissertation. By my calculations my committee should have my dissertation in hand around April 21st.
My fingers are crossed but since my adviser is going to be busy this next month preparing for the conference he puts together I'm not sure how much feedback I'll get from him to get my dissertation in order for my committee. I'll just have to cross my fingers and hope for the best.
When I was finishing my master's thesis I realized that my adviser is always really busy in the spring and that a spring graduation for my PhD was likely not in my future.
I guess all I can do is work my ass off and wait to see what he can do. This is also why I've decided to send chapters to my co-adviser.
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Good luck! Sounds like you're on the right track.
No, no, no. Set your defense date with your committee NOW. It is so hard to get 5 busy people all in the same room at the same time. When I defended, I had to schedule the date/time 3 months in advance and even then, it turned out that there was only one day at 8 am that would work for them all (and one had to conference call in from Europe!).
Otherwise, it sounds like things are going well.
Wow...that's a lot of progress. Good for you! And I'm with Sciencewoman on the defense date thing. I started scheduling mine more than 3 months in advance, and ended up with a choice of two days in May when everyone was available.
Wow, sounds like it is all coming together!! Good luck with what is left!
And yes, I have heard horror stories about difficulties of scheduling the defense date, so you should listen to ScienceWoman.
Thanks Everyone. I'm worried that if we set a date now that the thesis won't be ready by the defense data and then I'll look like an idiot. But then again, maybe having a date to shoot for will help with the motivation.
Good luck! It sounds like you've got a realistic timeline.
Go you!
Wow, sounds like you're working hard! Nice!
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