Oh there is too big a gap until my viva to dwell!
I can't stop thinking about it and am getting really worked up about it. I am going to have to get out my thesis tomorrow I think and look through it, then if it is that bad at least I know what I am working with... but actually I hope that looking through it will be pleasantly surprising. We shall see.
I had a bitchy email from the uni hub yesterday too saying that I had done the thesis wrong - the pagination was not to uni requirements and the front cover needed to be re-done. I am really sad about this. Gutted actually! They said they would send it to the examiners anyway (wtf?! Only now?! I handed it in over five weeks ago :() but when I hand it in proper I will have to have it done properly. There was a link in the email to a page that said how the uni want the thesis to be done, which I could really have done with before I submitted but no bugger showed it to me. I feel let down and just pissed off. I had info from last year about how to submit which I don't think I was expected to know was all of a sudden out of date. I only had that info because a friend (who submitted last year using these guidelines) sent it to me. I searched the uni website for something like this to no avail. I searched in the research handbook, nothing. I asked the uni admin, nothing. My sup was pretty chilled about how to hand it in and even had me changing the margin and my front cover from the requirements I had, which made me think that it must all be 'guidelines' rather than 'requirements'. In the end I had two front covers, and the one that has been criticised I didn't even design! I have never seen it before!
On the one hand I am berating myself for not knowing this info. Why didn't I find it? I have written a PhD thesis ffs, I should be able to format it properly! how lazy/slack of me not to have done it right :(. But on the other hand I am aware that if I looked for it, but didn't find it, how could I have known it was there? Maybe someone could have pointed it in my direction? I guess this is what happens when you are out of Uni for a long time. I dunno, but I can't help but feel like I have been ticked off and it sets a grim precedent for the viva :(
Generally I am grumpy and stressy at the mo, with moving house etc, and am terrified of the viva and all the work I will have to do afterwards. Hopefully when I am in the new house and mostly unpacked I shall be able to breathe out and focus on the viva stuff for a week or two with a clearer head...
I really really want it over with now so I can get one with the corrections and my life :) Oh that would be marvellous!
x J
I can't stop thinking about it and am getting really worked up about it. I am going to have to get out my thesis tomorrow I think and look through it, then if it is that bad at least I know what I am working with... but actually I hope that looking through it will be pleasantly surprising. We shall see.
I had a bitchy email from the uni hub yesterday too saying that I had done the thesis wrong - the pagination was not to uni requirements and the front cover needed to be re-done. I am really sad about this. Gutted actually! They said they would send it to the examiners anyway (wtf?! Only now?! I handed it in over five weeks ago :() but when I hand it in proper I will have to have it done properly. There was a link in the email to a page that said how the uni want the thesis to be done, which I could really have done with before I submitted but no bugger showed it to me. I feel let down and just pissed off. I had info from last year about how to submit which I don't think I was expected to know was all of a sudden out of date. I only had that info because a friend (who submitted last year using these guidelines) sent it to me. I searched the uni website for something like this to no avail. I searched in the research handbook, nothing. I asked the uni admin, nothing. My sup was pretty chilled about how to hand it in and even had me changing the margin and my front cover from the requirements I had, which made me think that it must all be 'guidelines' rather than 'requirements'. In the end I had two front covers, and the one that has been criticised I didn't even design! I have never seen it before!
On the one hand I am berating myself for not knowing this info. Why didn't I find it? I have written a PhD thesis ffs, I should be able to format it properly! how lazy/slack of me not to have done it right :(. But on the other hand I am aware that if I looked for it, but didn't find it, how could I have known it was there? Maybe someone could have pointed it in my direction? I guess this is what happens when you are out of Uni for a long time. I dunno, but I can't help but feel like I have been ticked off and it sets a grim precedent for the viva :(
Generally I am grumpy and stressy at the mo, with moving house etc, and am terrified of the viva and all the work I will have to do afterwards. Hopefully when I am in the new house and mostly unpacked I shall be able to breathe out and focus on the viva stuff for a week or two with a clearer head...
I really really want it over with now so I can get one with the corrections and my life :) Oh that would be marvellous!
x J
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