So....I got my PhD!

My doctoral defense was yesterday. It was incredibly stressful right up until it started, then it was fine. (I think the beginning really put me at ease...you can tell things will go well when your thesis committee starts off by arguing over which of the Avengers they would be. XD)

( Some rambling. )

Since I dropped out of the Dean/Cas Big Bang, I have un-flocked the little snippet I wrote for it: Permanent Ink. Turned out that was all the story that needed to be told ( Read more... )

Random assortment of disconnected ideas! Mostly just life updates ( Read more... )

Holy crap, I just realized I kind of love grad school. o.O I was thinking about career stuff, and how it'll be hard to find a job that lets me do all of the things I like doing -- build stuff, write programs, do analytical calculations, design systems, write papers, teach, work with students in lab, lead discussion panels on science fiction, bike ( Read more... )

More boring real-life stuff! If Reyka would get back on Twitter I could fling these at her, but since my Twitter is only followed by spambots I will inflict these on you instead ( Read more... )

THIRD FIRST AUTHOR PAPER FUCK YEAH. I am taking the optics world by storm ( Read more... )

So that talk I mentioned in my previous post? The one I procrastinated on by writing fic? I went in fairly ill-prepared and incredibly nervous for some unknown reason (possibly the Nobel Laureate who was there to ask as many questions as he could). I'm pretty sure I stammered a fair amount and went at least two minutes over time. Yeah, that ( Read more... )

I has returned ( Read more... )

Yay productive day! Despite getting up waaaay late, I managed to go to work and get a shitload of stuff done. (I AM THE QUEEN OF SIMULATIONS!) Yet again, I have been promised co-author on a Nature paper. Let's see if this one pans out ( Read more... )

Well, it took a week, but I'm finally finished with my thesis! Signed, dated, printed, printed *again*, signed again, photocopied, taken to the grad office, taken to the library, taken to the registrar, DONE! Geez, I hate bureaucracy ( Read more... )