Dissertation -- Done ?!!

[nakia]

You better be careful what you wish for... I know some people who I can convice to do this.

You stay out of this.

Remember Perrin's questioning during the meeting with the caravan guard commander? About distributing food to the refugees? Are you sure you want to turn him loose during your defense?

It still may be better than Oliver, mage with a helmet.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

It still may be better than Oliver, mage with a helmet.

I bet I could get Oliver to wear a big foam finger to go along with his helmet.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Congradulations

Hopefully I will be there with my thesis (Search for planets in the M34 Open Cluster) in the next month. Then I can get started on my dissertation (Effects of Low Pressure on Methanogens) which will consume the next five years of my life.

 

[diaglo]

"Actaully, Dr. Hoffman, I will let Perrin, Paladin of Pelor, field that question."

well the defense is based on judgements...

who better to be Judge Dredd than a Paladin.

 

[nakia]

Maybe I can get the paladin to challenge my committee to a trial by combat.

And good luck with your stuff, Achan hiArusa. Sounds like astronomy, which means you have to do experiments and stuff. I just had to read a few (well, a whole lot) of books.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm only an hour away. I could be there with a big foam finger thing if you think it'd help.

 

[RangerWickett]

http://emory.hr.emory.edu/careers.nsf/vwEUVDept?OpenView

Here's the list of positions available at my alma mater. I'm looking for a job too, but I'm not quite as qualified as you. Just a lowly bachelor of English-Creative Writing. But perhaps you will discover something suited to you.

 

[nakia]

I'm only an hour away. I could be there with a big foam finger thing if you think it'd help.

Unfortunately, I am not sure my committee has a sense of humor about these things. I am defending it in The Rotunda (the orginial, Thomas Jefferson designed and built university building, for those of you who have not been indoctrinated by UVA). I am not sure they even let foam fingers in there.

And thanks for the Emory employment link, Ryan. I have lots of friends in Atlanta, so moving there would be pretty cool. But it doesn't look like there's anything available in my field (at least not yet). Good luck to you in your search as well.

 

[RangerWickett]

Unfortunately, I am not sure my committee has a sense of humor about these things. I am defending it in The Rotunda (the orginial, Thomas Jefferson designed and built university building, for those of you who have not been indoctrinated by UVA). I am not sure they even let foam fingers in there.

And thanks for the Emory employment link, Ryan. I have lots of friends in Atlanta, so moving there would be pretty cool. But it doesn't look like there's anything available in my field (at least not yet). Good luck to you in your search as well.

I'm drunk. Should I post? I'll be up for at least another five minutes.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Astronomy

I know, I had a friend of mine who was doing here English dissertation on an early American writer and his influences on later American writers. She had almost 300 library books to return when she was done, which is probably closer to the number you had. His name escapes me, but I have an unopened copy of a book she had a duplicate of.

Astronomy has gotten to the point where all I do is stare at a computer screen. We take (lots of) pictures of the night sky with a CCD camera which downloads everything directly into a computer (Mac G4), then all these pictures and run them through a program that measures how bright each star in each picture and creates a graph of the brightness over time. And then hopefully we will find a change in brightness that is too small to be a star and too big to be noise and the wrong speed to be a starspot. I have a full CD-Rom of articles that I have needed to reference for my thesis. But once I get my pictures I can download them into a laptop and do all the work at the coffee house on campus (or from the kitchen table).

My PhD will be the lab work. I'll be growing archaea (bacteria-like critters) and then reading their methane emissions (and the rate they consume carbon dioxide). Plus I will be working with technologically/mathematically impaired biologists, so guess who gets to the the repair work, programming, and statistically analysis?