Hold that fanfare.

[kickaha]

I'm not walking in May. Period. My advisor and I had a major miscommunication... to defend, one must have a ready dissertation document. Them's the rules. They've allowed *one* student to bypass that and that's only because he was living in Brazil and his employer was going to fire him if he didn't successfully defend, so they let him fly up for the defense on a last-minute thing, and he could finish writing it later. Several years later, he still hasn't submitted the completed document, so they're not going to let it happen again.

I was working under the understanding that I would be able to defend once I had the research and results, and could spend the summer writing the last 100 of the 300 pgs or so. Not so. This means there's no way I can make the April 15th deadline to walk in May. C'est la vie.

Time to call the folks and tell them to cancel their plane tickets.

Fuck.

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[kimokeane.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that UNCCH is just like UH. But I have to say, I've heard that story about "I'll just finish the corrections and send them to you, trust me" a hundred times. You really, really want to be done when you leave. As much as the change in timeframe stinks for you, I will rest better knowing that you won't be in this "defended, but not done" grey twilight - it REALLY fucks with your head, and I've seen that up close.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've known a few others who had *literally* small edits to make, but they took months and months, and... yeah, I'd rather be done.

Luckily, there is a bright side in that it really doesn't change *anything* for me other than the pomp and circumstance. June 30th is my new hard deadline due to a committee member's adjunct professorship expiring, and frankly, that's about the time I'd have a solid draft anyway to have it in in time to graduate for real in August, which was the original plan. So now I have a solid draft, defend by June 30th, and then have a few weeks to do the final edits and format tweaking, submit it, and be done for real, 100%, big as life.

At least, that's the New Five Year Plan. ;)