Hold that fanfare.

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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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It could be worse...

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I knew a guy once who had finished his thesis, defended, gone through graduation, and was working at the Institute for Advanced Studies who about a year later was informed that he *wasn't* a PhD graduate until he came back and fixed the formating on his thesis (it seems the margins were wrong). He had to come back for a few weeks while the formating nazi's nit picked his thesis layout. It was ugly.

Re: It could be worse...

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Oh yeah. We have The Ruler Lady at UNC. She's infamous. But, I'm using a LaTeX style that has been successfully used by many students in the past, so at worst I'll have to tweak some things. :)