thesis turned in
In the words of the graduate office guy:
there is nothing left to do but wait for your diploma.
WOOT.
there is nothing left to do but wait for your diploma.
WOOT.
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whew!
Dear Committee,
Please find enclosed a pdf copy of a final draft of my thesis, entitled Search Strategies in Global Optimization. My advisor, Maya Gupta, has approved this draft for your consideration. I hope that you will find it interesting.
I would like to propose a final defense data of Tuesday, August 19th, 1pm-3pm. Alternative times are Tuesday, August 19, 9am-11am and Wednesday, August 20, 1pm-3pm. Please let me know which of these dates and times work for your schedule.
This time line requires that you are able to confirm the exam schedule by Tuesday, July 29. At that time I will need to have you send an email to the EE department stating that you have read the dissertation and agree to the scheduling of the exam.
I am available for any questions, requests, or discussion you may have at almost any time in the next month. The best way to reach me is via email, but I will be happy to come meet with you at your convenience.
Thank you! I look forward to working with you all.
...When i stop hyperventilating i think i'm going to collapse and be useless for a day or so.
Also, i'm going to hug Madeleine.
crash!
Are yunz sick of this yet?
Submitting my completed draft to my adviser around 3am. Today is all about implementing whatever edits she wants, and then, hoping that they are not too extensive, submitting it to my committee. (And adding two figures that currently have place holders because i didn't want to stay up late enough for all the data to generate.)
So i was feeling pretty good as i rode into work this morning
Got to work, my newly generated data is weird... doesn't match the preliminary results from yesterday. I'm not sure why.
AND, my submission to JGO was rejected.
AND, my adviser hasn't shown her head since Sunday, so i'm not sure where she is on all those edits.
AND, i still don't have a GSR.
On the up side, my sys-admin finally approved my matlab licensing this morning.
phhbbbt.
Submitting my completed draft to my adviser around 3am. Today is all about implementing whatever edits she wants, and then, hoping that they are not too extensive, submitting it to my committee. (And adding two figures that currently have place holders because i didn't want to stay up late enough for all the data to generate.)
So i was feeling pretty good as i rode into work this morning
Got to work, my newly generated data is weird... doesn't match the preliminary results from yesterday. I'm not sure why.
AND, my submission to JGO was rejected.
AND, my adviser hasn't shown her head since Sunday, so i'm not sure where she is on all those edits.
AND, i still don't have a GSR.
On the up side, my sys-admin finally approved my matlab licensing this morning.
phhbbbt.
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92 pages, 60 references.
For a while today i was down to 90 pages. Tomorrow i may remove some pseudo code which will permanently decrease my length, but make a better paper. Of course, hopefully i'll also add some figures.
My GSR finally got back to me with word that he is gone for the whole month of August. We're looking for a new one.
(In other news, my matlab installation at work has a nice feature wherein using the surf command crashes xwindows. Also, my shiny new laptop has shutdown at least once unexpectedly with an unsave bib file. Still, my latest results look really good, so i'm buoyed by that.)
For a while today i was down to 90 pages. Tomorrow i may remove some pseudo code which will permanently decrease my length, but make a better paper. Of course, hopefully i'll also add some figures.
My GSR finally got back to me with word that he is gone for the whole month of August. We're looking for a new one.
(In other news, my matlab installation at work has a nice feature wherein using the surf command crashes xwindows. Also, my shiny new laptop has shutdown at least once unexpectedly with an unsave bib file. Still, my latest results look really good, so i'm buoyed by that.)