Hey everyone!

Thanks for all of your replies. My Viva has successfully been rescheduled for the beginning of next week instead!

Turns out my Supervisor was setting a date earlier rather than later because he has booked a last minute holiday! How nice for him!

Anyways, I'm just glad to be given this weekend to really go back over the work I produced last weekend and better prepare what I'm planning to say during my speech.

In response to AOE26, I had already made an empty template for my poster prior to submission, and was aware of the fact that I would need to be talking about the implications of my findings and the research's strengths and weaknesses, though as I only finished writing the thesis the weekend before the submission, and then worked the weekdays in between, I hadn't had a chance to actual put anything into words and properly begin to prepare.

Thanks again for your opinions :)

My MSc thesis was submitted on Friday 2nd October (the deadline day). My Supervisor told me not to consider my Viva until the thesis was submitted as I would have plenty of time to prepare after the thesis itself was done.

My Supervisor emailed me on Friday 2nd asking for my Viva to be at 9.30am on Wednesday 7th. He knows I work full time yet expects me to produce an A1 sized poster, prepare and learn a 20 minute script, prepare answers to questions and get the poster printed, all before 9.30am on Wednesday. I'm not saying employed people should be given a later date, but perhaps nobody should be given a date within a week of submission??

I was also advised that I leave my thesis for a few days and go back to it with a fresh mind - how is this even possible?

I emailed my Supervisor back on Friday saying that I was expecting to have more preparation time and asked if the Viva can be rescheduled. I didn't receive a reply so I'm having to get the work done this weekend anyways (due to work commitments) incase it cannot be rescheduled. Even if I was unemployed I would only have 4 days!

I will only be able to print the poster at 9am on Wednesday morning at my University's print shop - which is a tight squeeze, especially if I'm not at the front of the queue! And the poster may print out completely wrong! I live 50 minutes away from University & the shop closes at 5pm (the time I finish work), so I can't get the poster printed on Monday/Tuesday.

What sort of durations have any of you had between your thesis submit and Viva date? Am I being unreasonable by asking for it to be rescheduled?

Also, I'm not looking for a sob story, but I was involved in a car crash on my way to submit the thesis so that has been taking up a lot of my mind! Talk about bad timing!