A temporary end to the "BRB off dying" post a while back (yeah a while back, I am aware) as I have just had my committee meeting this afternoon and am going to take a few weekends off before I go insane. In the meantime I would like to announce that:
1) This is the first committee meeting that did NOT end with directions for me to go and edit my slides. (Though of course my PI told me how to improve my slides anyway -- there's no "go edit these or I will not sign your eval" from the other PIs, praised be.)
2) I am scheduled for another meeting at the end of November to a) serve as progress check and b) set a defense date. DEFENSE DATE.
3) I got more experiments suggested to me, even though I'm supposed to be WRITING NOW and it's supposed to take me around 6 months to put together a manuscript, so I'm not entirely sure how this is going to fall out so OH GOD. (Does this mean it's a pre-defense meeting? I'm not entirely clear. The PI claims that the pre-defense meeting is not an official thing but just a thing to make sure that the student is ready to defense so I guess????)
4) I have apparently started the process of completing my doctorate. Yet somehow I don't feel any smarter than when I started this journey. If anything I feel stupider. I feel like I should write very indignant and cuttingly worded letters to somebody.
5) I want tea and a chocolate cupcake, rather badly.
1 comment:
..yay..?
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