Well, its August time now and final submission date for my PhD thesis ('Position' in Greek, allegedly an intellectual proposition) is 30th September. How close am I to finishing writing? Nearly there...kind of.
You see, my supervisor is kindly checking 6 out of 7 chapters which are all fully written. I hope not to have too many corrections for them, but even if I do they shouldn't take too long to sort out.
The kind of bit stems from the remaining chapter, something where the analysis is proving to be hard stuff and until that's done I can't finish writing the chapter. When that's (hopefully soon) done I then have appendices and tidying to do before printing and submitting.
My aim is to submit between 17th and 29th September. I will finish the writing by then, despite mot being sure how much is left to do yet. I have to! It'll probably make September the hardest month yet but I only truly have myself to blame despite the excuses I make to myself :)
The large range for submission dates is due to me not knowing which day(s) I can get off work to go to Durham and do the relevant printing, binding and paperwork. Also depends on work commitments too.
I will make these dates, submit on time, organise examiners and enjoy(!?!) defending my thesis - successfully I hope - in my
Viva Voce (by word of mouth or 'living voice'). Hopefully corrections will be minor, but even if they're major I'll not be too worried - just have to ensure its not a resubmission jobbie.
It feels good to say this in a public forum (if read only by the few - cheers Kiran ;)) as it now means I'll have to do what I've said I'll do. Hmmm, here's to hard work for two more months...
