"Oh, you thought you were done with grad school? Fooled you!"

So instead of being essentially done with graduate school I am now sticking around for another month or so. That's right, 5 minutes after I was supposed to start defending my thesis (I figured my committee was running late) Brad took me out into the hallway and told me that my committee didn't think I was ready to defend today. Apparently I need to make my methods and results more detailed and I need to include the experiments that never worked. Because my thesis should reflect the work I did, even if it didn't actually give me any useable results. Sigh. So now I'm looking to defend at the end of July. And I just now realized that I am supposed to go to Milwaukee on July 30, which is when we are aiming for me to defend again. Anyways, I"m exhausted and headache-y, so I"m going home to sleep or watch TV until happy hour. Did I mention that I hate Rhode Island and that everything I do here fails?

Random Update

Hmm..so I haven't updated in a while, mostly because nothing incredibly interesting is going on. I went to Cooperstown over Memorial weekend and got to hang out with my cousin Ellie, Dave, Sara, Mike and meet Kodi, Mike's girlfriend. She's a good match for him. She's nice and funny, and she cracks me up because when she gets excited or happy about something she makes the touchdown sign. It's so random, and so funny.

I haven't done much at all the last week or two. I turned in my defendable copy of my thesis May 23, and I defend NEXT FRIDAY. I'm starting to freak out about it a little. I read over my thesis the other day and caught a few random errors that I needed to fix (a spelling error or two, and one thing that I just wrote incorrectly and will need to fix before my final final copy). I reread a few papers and wrote notes to myself, trying to anticipate questions my committee will ask. And I plan on making my presentation today, or at least getting most of it done. Other than that I've been slowly cleaning and organizing my bedroom (it's been a disaster area for months) and applying for more jobs.

So, nothing too exciting going on. I can't believe I'm almost done. I'm worried I'll do something stupid during my defense, like, someone will ask me a question and I won't know the answer, but I should know the answer, something like that... Still, my fellow grad students have given me encouragement, reminding me that it's not the end of the world if I don't know an answer, and that most committee members assume that I'm pretty much done, and that the defense is a formality, necessary, and I will have to make changes to my thesis afterwards, but that, for the most part, it will all be alright.