finally!

Finally! I have successfully defended my thesis today! THANK YOU, LORD!

After a bit of a scare early in the morning, fearing another repeat of my August schedule cancellation because of the heavy rains (classes had been suspended again in the city), cannot find my map for a while, and one of my examiners being late, we finally proceeded with my long awaited thesis defense.

The defense went well with teachers and students attending, aside from my panel. The presentation took around thirty minutes. It took another thirty or so minutes of open to the public Q&A, where there was a long discussion of my thesis results amongst my thesis panel. I could tell that they were excited so I think that was a success. There were a few questions that caught me unawares but over-all, it went well. After that, the audience were asked to leave the room and another set of questioning occurred but I cannot remember any of the questions because from then on, it was all a blur to me. I remembered my panel asking that I leave the room for their deliberation. It was a scary moment, waiting for my results.

Finally, my thesis panel chair called me, shook my hand, and congratulated me. When I entered the room again, my thesis panel was there, offering their hands and smiling, congratulating me.

I passed with flying colors.

Thank God.

I am finally done with school.

thesis writing

My personal leave from the office is ending soon. Took a break from work to focus on writing my thesis and hopefully, would be able to graduate by the end of the first semester of the next academic year. It's been a struggle as I cannot seem to focus on my work schedule and instead work on and off and that ends up with me sometimes working in the wee hours of the morning. It drives havoc to my sleep (as I am prone to sleeping problems) and I just hope that by the time I go back to work, my sleeping pattern will have returned to normal. It seems weird but at my age, which they say can function with less than five hours of sleep, I still need to have eight hours of sleep and if permitted, an hour or two nap in the afternoon. My eyes are usually blurry when I get less than adequate sleep.

I just woke up an hour ago after falling asleep on the sofa around 2 o'clock in the morning.

On a brighter note, I have now written a part of my fourth method's methodology, result and discussion. As I still have a need to study this method, I am now required to do some reading of its application with respect to my work. I am just weirded out as to why I had agreed to do this in the first place when two methodology would have sufficed. I guess that is a flaw young graduate students are guilty of -- thinking that they can do everything. Now I am stuck with this so I just hope that what is written would suffice to support my main method.

My draft will again be submitted next Monday, after I edit for missing commas or periods, spaces between words and most importantly, figures numbers and its text references. This might seem simple but it does take a lot of time doing the referencing especially since the software I'm using does not do automatic corrections once figure and caption changes are done in the middle of the text. If only I were still using LaTex!

Please pray for me that I may finish my writing my thesis and defend it this year.

P.S. I have temporarily deactivated my Facebook account.