And I passed.
All of that hard work came down to 55 minutes of conversation. It wasn't a breeze, though. One of the professors was altogether skeptical about the work of a scholar cited over and over in my paper. I didn't realize it until then, but I wanted this to be kind of hard. I wanted to actually defend something. His tough questions made me do just that, and I liked that he read my paper with the same critical eye that he reads other academics. And I handled it. Even enjoyed it.
Someday, I'll go back to that kind of work. But now. I want to rest. Long and hard.
9 comments:
So glad that adrenaline had a place to go - an actual defense! Now I plan to peal you off the couch and feed you grease.
Congratulations!!!!! And I'm glad your blog is back, too.
you tuffian you!
Congrats WONDER WOMAN!!!
Can you come to my defense and defend me? (some day?)
KUDOS IN CAPS, I SAY!!!!
I'm so jazzed for ya.
lee
Congratulations!
It would not be right if your mom had nothing to say. I am very proud of you. A celebration is well overdue. We will work on it this weekend.
Love MDoc
I'm glad they took your BAP seriously. It wouldn't be right if they treated it any differently than a scholarly paper.
And it would not be right if your overly verbose sister didn't have something to say about this.... Something like this: WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! YIPPIEEE!!!! ABBRACADABRA!!! (Don't know where that came from...) SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will work really hard (but not like the working hard you've been doing) at celebration this weekend - skiing, eating, vegging, eating, playing Scrabble, playing cards, soaking in the hot tub, eating, skiing, snowshoeing, eating ... Doesn't this sound fun?
WTG, WOMAN!!
v.v. proud!!
Isnt it a huge relief to be done? The week after defending mine, I found myself not knowing what to do, I looked aimlessly around my house and office for things to do, but nothing...and then...Finally, I realized it was over and kicked up my boots. I hope you do the same this upcoming week...great job and congrats!
Your assignment, if you choose to accept it is to PARTY DOWN! YEEHHAAAWWWW (just like they say in commercials about MT).
Congrats.
That's my girl.
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