A Newly Minted Ph.D.
That’s right – about 3:30PM today, I passed my dissertation defense and am semi-officially a Ph.D. I say semi-officially because there is some paperwork in the way, but for the most part… it’s done. It’s an odd feeling…
Category: The Dissertation
It Is Impossible to Schedule Six People Simultaneously
Well, not impossible. But very difficult! Especially if the five people that you are e-mailing don’t all check their e-mail at least every day or two. But after 31 total e-mails over the course of a week, I have a defense date – May 6…
Less than a Month to Dr.
After four rounds of revisions with my advisor, I have sent my 141-page, 24,821-word dissertation to my committee, and have begun the process of scheduling my oral dissertation defense for the first or second...
Unexpected Deadlines
Problems with the house. Apparently, there are several “issues” with our mortgage application that the bank only decided to let us know about two weeks before closing. Well, technically they sent the letter April...
Meta-Analyses for Easter
The tables for my dissertation are done. I ran a total of 93 individual meta-analyses and produced 40 pages of tables over the last two days. My fingers hurt. It’s a lot like that...
30,859 Pieces of Hell
The goal of my dissertation is to identify underlying differences between traditional and web-based training programs. To do this, I went back through hundreds of published and unpublished articles, dissertations, and assorted scholarly sources...