#dissertation defense

[facts-i-just-made-up]

How to get a PhD?

In five easy steps, you can earn a real PhD! Here's how:

Choose a subject in which you can get a PhD, such as Caviar Debrining, Musical Glassware Demolition, or Cunnilingus.

Enroll in a graduate school that offers a PhD course in your topic, such as CU Boulder, the Academy of Raya Lucaria, or the Royal Institute for the Study and Performance of Cunnilingus.

Achieve 80-140 hours of class credits in relevant coursework, such as Advanced Bullshitting, Making Up MLA Format Citations That Sound Real, and Warping Irrelevant Quotations So They Will Appear To Fit Your Points (Cunning Linguistics).

Compose a dissertation in the medium demanded by your field, such as an Essay, Scientific Treatise, or Oral Presentation.

Defend your dissertation. This is nothing to be afraid of and is merely titled a "defense" in an antiquated sense of the word. You can defend your dissertation in many academic ways, such as a sword duel, outlasting a professor in the pain induction box, or of course, besting them in Competitive Cunnilingus. This last one is naturally the most reliable way to graduate Cum Laude.

[bakingmakingmachine]

I am defending my doctorate in 2 weeks! I am so thankful to be so close to the finish line.

After the defense of my dissertation, I'll be submitting my dissertation to the library about 2 weeks later and then graduating in May!

I was also asked to go to one last conference so in May I will be presenting my work.

Then I will be working as a post doctorate for about two months while I look for work elsewhere where the goal will be to write and submit my final two journal articles and also continue with assisting in external project work.

And then on to a new job, new area, no school!!!!

Woooh!

[dirty-bosmer]

Got a marriage license and bought wedding rings. It's happenin

[sesamestreep]

I’m listening to a radio drama version of “the hound of the baskervilles” right now (with Roger Rees as Sherlock Holmes in frankly perfect casting) and it’s reminding me how much I love this story. It truly has everything:

Widely beloved Victorian literature trope of having One Random Texan in the ensemble. Yes, Sir Henry Baskerville is technically Canadian but I’ve never encountered an adaptation that doesn’t give him big yeehaw energy so it counts.

Holmes encouraging Watson to make a bunch of deductions just so he can tell him how he’s wrong which leads to my controversial take for one of the most romantic speeches in western literary canon. “Conductor of light” speech, my belovedest.

in a shocking twist, the guy who believes in phrenology also believes in the mystical hell hound that eats rich men who don’t respect women enough.

speaking of which, that wild letter from the Baskerville Ancestor being like “and this is why we’re nice to women, my beautiful boy sons. Not because they deserve it, but because a big dog will eat us if we aren’t.” Like, okay, then. Big Dogs Against Misogyny is a cause I can get behind.

Holmes volunteering Watson to go be this random guy they just met’s bodyguard because he’s definitely in danger but not in enough danger for Holmes to go himself.

that secretly being not the real reason he doesn’t go to Dartmoor at first (because he does go), but he needs to make a dramatic and insane entrance every now and then or he will literally die.

written smack between The Final Problem and The Empty House, you can see Doyle trying to have his cake and eat it too by having it be a prior case so Holmes is still alive AND having Holmes notably absent for a huge chunk of the narrative so he doesn’t have to write him and his bullshit deductions, but there’s nothing for it. The readers WANTED that silly old man BACK.

speaking of Holmes’s long absence from the story, this book gives us my favorite thing in the entire canon: Gothic Romance Heroine John Watson™️ wandering Baskerville Hall in a flowing gown, hearing wailing women and drowning ponies on the moors.

Sherlock “Observation” Holmes sending two of the most bisexual men he knows into the countryside together on a dangerous mission would be crazy work truthfully if he didn’t also make Watson promise to basically ruin Sir Henry’s fun at every turn. If Watson hadn’t been in wet blanket mode the whole time, they absolutely would have hooked up.

as it is, Henry’s living the bi dream of being torn between his hot, honorable bodyguard, a tragically beautiful woman who won’t stop portending his doom, and guy he’s technically related to who’s also homoerotically obsessed with killing and supplanting him. He ends the story by going on an indefinite vacation for his health with the best friend he inherited from his dead uncle who is technically married but we never meet his wife or learn her name.

Guy who’s obsessed with filing lawsuits is apparently a type of guy that transcends time.

that one detail where Watson says his letters to Holmes are replicated faithfully in the text except for ONE MISSING PAGE.

Which could mean NOTHING.

Watson begging Holmes to show up in every single letter and thirsting for his praise SO bad.

bad guy who gets his plan ruined by the combined powers of Lepidopterology and Women Who Fucking Hate His Ass.

Holmes wearing Watson’s clothes because he didn’t pack a suitcase (idiot)

Which could mean NOTHING.

all this shit and they still like very barely save their client’s life. Nice job, boys.

BIG HUGE PUPPY.

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

I wonder how different my doctoral degree would have gone if my advisor believed me when I told him things

[shitacademicswrite]

[carryingstarlightinherwake]

I'm officially Dr. Nerd Queen!!

[yeonban]

Guy who was told to "apply for several internship places because the majority of students aren't accepted at the first option and we have no time to wait long before you have to do your internship report" and who, therefore, applied for two internship places; now has to do TWO internships at once because both places accepted him and he wants one of them for the CV perks & the other for the potential job he might gain from it postgrad. On top of attending his current classes and doing the tons of dissertation research + writing required for him to finish that damn paper in time for its defense

[cluedoenthusiast]

[namistrella]

Not overly impressed by the writing in the first few eps of Foundation so far but this scene was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life

"What do you do in your mausoleum of calculus if not ACHIEVE RESULTS?!"

and then he literally yells at a statistician so hard the guy drops dead

[bakingmakingmachine]

So yesterday I didn't do the best calorie wise. I believe I ended up eating CLOSE, but still over maintenance by about 250 calories. So not terrible honestly considering this week is such a huge week for me. Also, I did my hour of cycling yesterday which was great. Also, helped keep me from going even more over maintenance. But also, cycling just feels great!

I'm also thinking today I might as well plan to go over calories. I have a late laaaaate night planned considering the final slides for my defense and my dissertation both have to be completed tonight. That way tomorrow afternoon my committee and I can discuss glaring formatting issues or major edits needed prior to my defense friday. Which will give me all of Thursday for corrections, practicing my defense, printing/binding my dissertation, printing slides, placing an order for coffee and sweets to pick up Friday prior to my defense.

So I got this. But I know I'll be stressed and up extremely late and possibly an all nighter so adding calorie counting to today would just add even more stress. So I'll remember that one bad day this week isn't going to ruin me. I'll still be mindful of what I eat for the rest of the day considering this morning prior to a 2 hour nap (since I pulled an all nighter last night) I ate 3 dark chocolate biscottis and 8 dark chocolate Milano cookies. 😂 so I'm already at 710 for the day. So there's a chance to still end slightly above maintenance if I'm smart about my next two meals.

I'm planning on a raspberry vanilla yogurt oat bowl for one (350ish) and maybe a big tuna salad sandwich (375ish) and a blueberry vanilla yogurt oat bowl to finish my all nighter out (450ish). This should keep me around maintenance but also satisfied.

Wish me luck! When I finish my defense, expect lots of experimental and simulation posts sharing the non-security controlled images. They're very cool to me and I think others will think so too. 😊

Also, side note, when I tell people my simulations run in Fortran people always go WOAH! That's old. Haha.

Here's some pictures of my dinner last night. I highly recommend this. Feel free to change the tuna to chicken if you'd like or a vegan alternative. I love pan-fried and marinated crispy tofu as an alternative.

This meal was (560) and incredibly satisfying. I did more than a serving of the pasta because 56 g made me sad to see so I did 90 g instead.

Here's the pasta I used. I recommend following the cooking time to the full 14 minutes otherwise it does have more of an odd texture, but it's really good. It's pricier, so definitely more of an occasional thing for me.

This is tuna, pasta (pictured above), green olives, capers, kalamata olives, spinach and spring mix, lemon juice, crumbled goat cheese.

Protein: 61g, Fiber: 14

[wesawbears]

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[erikahenningsen]

yes babe your thesis is so interesting 😂😂

Do you honestly think Regina cares even a little bit about math lol she's just staring at Cady's lips anytime she's talking about it. Now, a dissertation defense? She thinks that sounds very sexy and exciting. Bullying for academic purposes.

[todaysromano]

06.01.2025

Today, Romano was glad to pack up hours gear and head home for a shower.

Arab.com link

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

If I tell you guys I am keeping Monday and Wednesday next week free of leaving-the-house commitments do you think I'll stick to it

[lxvvie]

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