We get so few opportunities to TRULY attention whore ourselves as we get older. Might as well take advantage. Plus, people who come usually bring presents and/or cake.
And booze.
Mine had me drinking Makers Mark, tequila, champagne, beer and wine all before 11am.
With everyone so proud of me
my PI made me a personalized champagne flute with PhD after my name, that was used then.
Oh, god, I hope my H doesn't want me to attend his. I mean, I would if he asked. But I hope he doesn't ask.
I am the horrible wife who still hasn't read his dissertation.
I'm dreading this. H wants me to read over his stuff since I'm an English teacher to chsxktfor errors. He's in physics, so I'm always like, "Um...is this supposed to be a noun?" I have no idea what 85% of it means.
Mine had me drinking Makers Mark, tequila, champagne, beer and wine all before 11am.
With everyone so proud of me
my PI made me a personalized champagne flute with PhD after my name, that was used then.
You know I remember you posting drunk afterwards, lol. I remember thinking that eventually it would be my turn ;-)
Everyone got me horribically drunk, we went home, slept it off, and at 8pm I was out with my lab floor partying it up till bar time. MoAaAaar drinks. It was epic.
I must have had so much stress liberation that I didn't get a hangover.
Oh, god, I hope my H doesn't want me to attend his. I mean, I would if he asked. But I hope he doesn't ask.
I am the horrible wife who still hasn't read his dissertation.
LOL! We have been joking about how I am going to have to suffer and read it to check for typos, etc. It's about boats. boring, boring boats!
Sounds like he wants me to go. I just don't think he realized that it as norm for his department (since although they are open to the public he's never been to one).
And we're going out afterwards! Because words cannot describe how happy I will be when this is all over.
Dude, *I* didn't read my entire dissertation once finished. I mean, I would keep reading sections of it while I was writing it, each section was approved by my adviser, but since it was a collective entity (a graduate career piecemeal if you wish) when all was said and collated, I didn't read it all. I am certain not even my advisers read it all, they probably just browsed through it - it's not like they hadn't heard the same damn story inch by inch all of the time.
In fact, I remember (Because of the damn autocorrect) I had an ERROR IN MY TITLE (I wrote S. Cerevisiae instead of S. cerevisiae (small C = right, big c = wrong). I told everyone that I knew about it, but I didn't want to reprint the damn thing (That I had individually bound for each committee member, and which promptly went into some garbage after they deemed me worthy of the three coveted letters).
Ha.
I also didn't read DH's. Even if I did part of his work (we were collaborating labs). His work was in my thesis as well. Agreeable symmetry.
We get so few opportunities to TRULY attention whore ourselves as we get older. Might as well take advantage. Plus, people who come usually bring presents and/or cake.
And booze.
Mine had me drinking Makers Mark, tequila, champagne, beer and wine all before 11am.
With everyone so proud of me
my PI made me a personalized champagne flute with PhD after my name, that was used then.
SO MUCH BOOZE.
i mean, you know who was at mine. I purposely scheduled it for early in the morning so we were drinking by 11 am.
Dude, *I* didn't read my entire dissertation once finished. I mean, I would keep reading sections of it while I was writing it, each section was approved by my adviser, but since it was a collective entity (a graduate career piecemeal if you wish) when all was said and collated, I didn't read it all. I am certain not even my advisers read it all, they probably just browsed through it - it's not like they hadn't heard the same damn story inch by inch all of the time.
In fact, I remember (Because of the damn autocorrect) I had an ERROR IN MY TITLE (I wrote S. Cerevisiae instead of S. cerevisiae (small C = right, big c = wrong). I told everyone that I knew about it, but I didn't want to reprint the damn thing (That I had individually bound for each committee member, and which promptly went into some garbage after they deemed me worthy of the three coveted letters).
Ha.
I also didn't read DH's. Even if I did part of his work (we were collaborating labs). His work was in my thesis as well. Agreeable symmetry.
I have a copy, but I hope to never see that fucking thing again as long as I live.
Dude, *I* didn't read my entire dissertation once finished. I mean, I would keep reading sections of it while I was writing it, each section was approved by my adviser, but since it was a collective entity (a graduate career piecemeal if you wish) when all was said and collated, I didn't read it all. I am certain not even my advisers read it all, they probably just browsed through it - it's not like they hadn't heard the same damn story inch by inch all of the time.
In fact, I remember (Because of the damn autocorrect) I had an ERROR IN MY TITLE (I wrote S. Cerevisiae instead of S. cerevisiae (small C = right, big c = wrong). I told everyone that I knew about it, but I didn't want to reprint the damn thing (That I had individually bound for each committee member, and which promptly went into some garbage after they deemed me worthy of the three coveted letters).
Ha.
I also didn't read DH's. Even if I did part of his work (we were collaborating labs). His work was in my thesis as well. Agreeable symmetry.
I have a copy, but I hope to never see that fucking thing again as long as I live.
I didn't even get a copy. No useless leather-bound anything for me. I have an electronic copy somewhere.
BUT THE POINT IS, DID YOU READ IT, IN ITS ENTIRETY after you finalized it? DID YOU? (I wrote it in sections, because of the obvious - three labs and all)
Post by penguingrrl on Mar 4, 2015 22:32:31 GMT -5
I went to Hs. He wanted me there. His parents and my mom came as well, at his invitation. Several of his friends from his group and others attended as well. That was the general culture of his department. We went out to his favorite restaurant for a late lunch after as celebration.
He did not walk at graduation. The regalia was $250 to rent or $900 to buy for a group ceremony and he thought that was absurd, so he didn't walk.
I have a copy, but I hope to never see that fucking thing again as long as I live.
I didn't even get a copy. No useless leather-bound anything for me. I have an electronic copy somewhere.
BUT THE POINT IS, DID YOU READ IT, IN ITS ENTIRETY after you finalized it? DID YOU? (I wrote it in sections, because of the obvious - three labs and all)
I absolutely did NOT. I just stuck my chapters together with filler garbage. To the best of my knowledge NO ONE has read it all the way through. I know my committee sure as hell didn't.
I attended my H's defense and didn't understand a damn word of it. Science, man.
This was my DH at my defense. At one point I looked into the audience (ours were open so I had about 50ish people there) and saw him dozing with his eyes closed. Poor guy.
I didn't even get a copy. No useless leather-bound anything for me. I have an electronic copy somewhere.
BUT THE POINT IS, DID YOU READ IT, IN ITS ENTIRETY after you finalized it? DID YOU? (I wrote it in sections, because of the obvious - three labs and all)
I absolutely did NOT. I just stuck my chapters together with filler garbage. To the best of my knowledge NO ONE has read it all the way through. I know my committee sure as hell didn't.
Someone took my Master's thesis out of the library! Whut!
And my friend Frank (who passed away last year) read it. He's the only one. DH has a copy of mine in our living room bookcase. I can't even look at it!
I am the horrible wife who still hasn't read his dissertation.
I'm dreading this. H wants me to read over his stuff since I'm an English teacher to chsxktfor errors. He's in physics, so I'm always like, "Um...is this supposed to be a noun?" I have no idea what 85% of it means.
at my first thesis defense (undergrad), my h came and at the end was like, "WHAT THE FUCK DO THOSE WORDS EVEN MEAN??? I CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TITLE MEANS!" lol.