With the love and support from my family and friends, a terrific amount of hard work, lots of blood, sweat & tears (LOTS of tears), and five YEARS of graduate studies...

I have finally done it.

I completed my oral defense.

The only thing standing between me and the diploma stating I have a Ph.D. is minor typographical revisions to my written

 ... whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. I am hoping that these next few weeks are the 'make stronger' variety. I have mapped out (and re-mapped, and re-mapped) plans for my (hopefully) final set of experiments. So far, most everything is going right on the first try, and I'm hopeful it will continue that way. I don't want to say too ( Read more... )

 ...could not be more appropriate. I just keep repeating "A page a day. A page a day..."