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October 03, 2008

The Only Good Dissertation is a Done Dissertation

If you follow me on Twitter and Facebook updates, you know that I submitted my completed dissertation to my committee this afternoon.

After months and months and years of working at this degree, and feeling as if I would never come to the end of the work given all the other responsibilities in my life, I have.  I'm almost at the end.  My director's comments were that the committee will read over the work for the next few weeks, makes notes about what I need to modify, then we'll schedule a defense for early November.  Between now and the first of December, I'll make whatever changes are necessary to the work.  But it's possible that by early November, I'll be a Ph.D.

I write that-- "early November" --and it doesn't seem quite real.  Holy crap.  Digression:  when I lived in Tokyo I used to just walk down the street-- minding my own business.  I would have these sudden attacks of surreal moments:  "I'm walking down the street in Tokyo, Japan," I would tell myself.  It didn't seem right.  Me.  In Japan.  Completing the dissertation and being a Ph.D.?  It's like that, surreal.

Suddenly, I'm very, very tired.

Things I will do now that I'm not writing about alternative programs and pedagogies for underprepared student-athletes (but I'll do them starting tomorrow):

  • Take photographs.  I have missed my camera and using photography as a way of seeing the world.  Maybe I won't go back to Project 365-- as I did that for 18 months-- I think I'll start something else.
  • Visit with my family.  I'll see the Bundle in a few weeks when I go to LA.  Can't wait!!
  • Apply for a job ... a lot of them, actually. 
  • Wash my car.  Really.  It's bad.
  • Read blogs.  I have 837 blog posts in my feed reader that have been ignored for the past few weeks.
  • Write blog posts.  I've missed writing here.
  • Grade student essays.  I'm sure students will be happy to get them back. 
  • Celebrate the submission, the revision, the defense, and the graduation.  Lots of celebration going on in these parts.
  • Visit San Francisco (see applying for a job above).
  • Clean my house. 
  • See San Francisco (since I once lived there, I want to visit the places I used to visit).
  • Get a haircut.
  • Referee soccer.
  • Buy another graduation present for myself, something not quite as expensive as the first present I bought myself.  (hee hee; click the link and go to the last item) 
  • Exercise-- yes, it's been a while --and I want to get back to it.
     

But for now, it's time for bed. I'm bone tired.  Tomorrow starts a whole new chapter . . . ok, the new chapter will be planned tomorrow. That new chapter will actually begin . . . early November.

Cross posted at Dissertation Boot Camp.

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Congratulations!! :)

congrats! That's so exciting!

congrats, indeed.

Good going, Billie. May you enjoy every minute of the celebrating.

yay! This is great news.

Congratulations again! I am so excited for you.

Congratulations. What a wonderful thing to accomplish. :)

Congrats! Dr. Billie - it's got a nice ring to it!

Don't stop posting your pictures in some way. I would and do miss your pictures.

simply wonderful!

Been so busy following your lead. Whew, life of the diss. Any updates? Keep us updated when your committee sets the D-day!

Blogs are good for every one where we get lots of information for any topics nice job keep it up !!!


Blogs are good in which we get lots of information and convert that information to knowledge.

Blogs are so interactive where we get lots o informative on any topics nice job keep it up !!

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