Byrd Wrote:
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> > As a few of you know, I have been busy with my
> final semester as a PhD student. At the end of it
> you have a sixteen hour (16 hour... no I'm not
> kidding) exam (two 8-hour days.) As you can see, I
> have been officially notified that I passed the
> exam.
>
> Now I have to do a dissertation proposal, defend
> it, do the research, go through the IRB (human
> research evaluation process), write a 200 page
> dissertation and then defend it to the committee.
>
> Okay. Celebration over. Back to work.
As someone slugging through the dissertation at the moment, I suggest you may want to savour this moment a tad longer. There are long and arduous roads ahead, but I can also say that as you prove your dissertation's points (every dissertaion embodies a unique argument only
you can attempt to prove), it can be most gratifying.
So congrats on the test-passing: now enjoy it for a few days, you deserve it. You will then find as to you delve into the dissertation (after a while) that is was only the
start of your hard work.
Katherine