I'm a Dr now and it's a bit weird, very nice though!! on PostgraduateForum.com

Tricky 3395 posts
15 years ago

Well done.. Congrats on getting through it! 8-)(up)

rubyw 2675 posts
15 years ago

Hello, thanks ever so much everyone!! :-) It's all about plodding on in the end, so your time will come too!

I'm knackered now actually, it's just caught up with me. Curiously, neither the elderly tourettes lady obsessed with traffic regulations, or the Waynetta Slob lookalike spraying her armpits with deodorant on the bus annoyed me today, so I guess I'm still rather happy! :-)

Thanks again everybody!:-)

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H 5282 posts
15 years ago

Well done Rubyw!

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Java 144 posts
15 years ago

Huge congrats, it is lovely to read a success story and interesting what you say about no longer feeling guilty when socialising with friends etc, I realise guilt could be a constant companion for the next 3 yrs (I hope only 3!!) as I start my climb on the big PhD mountain - enjoy a guilt free rest
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Lara 3929 posts
15 years ago

congratulations!!! well done, you are a total super star!!! i'm so happy for you!

thanks for describing how it was.

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Lara 3929 posts
15 years ago

Quote From rubyw:

Two other things I forgot to say earlier, there are so many horror stories about vivas on here that I thought writing about an ordinary one with a normal outcome might help redress the balance a bit. So it was meant as that, rather than a triumphalist post.

Also, the whole PhD 'experience' is so difficult in many ways that I think I would have found doing it a hell of a lot harder without this forum. It's been very reassuring to read so many similar problems and questions that I was also coming across myself, even though I didn't post about them myself on here. So thanks everyone, whether practical advice or abject misery, it's all been very supportive!! Lara, Tractorgirl and Armendaf have been great, especially while they were submitting, and all provided me with a lot of support, so thank you! (up):-)(up)

aww that's so sweet! :) you are so welcome!

I'm a Dr now and it's a bit weird, very nice though!!

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